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Havana, Cuba Jul 9 (EFE) (camera Felipe Borrego) .- Latin America has its first indigenous vaccine for covid-19: the Cuban formulation Abdala, with an efficacy of 92.2% in clinical trials.
The Hague, May 4 (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: EFE/EPA)The European Medicines Agency on Tuesday began a rolling review of the first vaccine submitted for EU market authorization by a Chinese company. EFE/EPA ARCHIVE FOOTAGE.
Europe's medicines regulator says that blood clots should be listed as a very rare side effect of Johnson & Johnson's coronavirus vaccine, but that the benefits of the shot still outweigh the risks. SOUNDBITE
London, March 19 (EFE), (Camera: Pilar Tomás).- The suspension of vaccination with AstraZeneca in a dozen European countries after registering several cases of thrombosis and embolisms contributed to an "unnecessary panic that can have a great negative impact on the vaccine confidence", warns Salvador Macip, a researcher at the University of Leicester. FOOTAGE OF LONDON.SOUNDBITES OF SALVADOR MACIP, RESEARCHER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER: "Covid-19 vaccination campaign in Europe is going bad, much more slowly than expected. And the problem is that the number of those vaccinated will determine the level of restrictions, the level of normalcy that each country has. Europe will be slower than the countries which are going well, such as Israel, UK or the US.""How is it going to develop? It is difficult to know but what we know is that we will reach the solution to pandemic through vaccination."
The International Olympic Committee has "full confidence in the French security authorities" ahead of the Paris Olympics, president Thomas Bach says following the IOC's Executive Board meeting. The statement from Bach plays down any security fears in the wake of crowd control issues at the Stade de France in May's Champions League football final. It also comes a day after violence broke out in the Europa Conference League game between Nice and Cologne. SOUNDBITE