European Medicines Agency will decide today on the AstraZeneca vaccine
The European Medicines Agency will meet later to decide whether any extra precautions are needed to use the AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19. A dozen countries stopped using it as a temporary precaution following a small cluster of blood clotting cases which emerged last weekend. Ireland’s vaccines board called a…
European Medicines Agency’s safety committee to meet today
The European Medicines Agency’s safety committee will meet today, as part of its investigation into the AstraZeneca vaccine. It will also hold an extraordinary meeting on Thursday, when it will make a final call on whether the Covid-19 injection is safe. The EMA’s current position is that the…
Over 40 new cases of Covid-19 detected in North West
The Department of Health have confirmed that 10 more people have died from Covid-19 in the Republic of Ireland. 592 new cases of the virus were also reported in the Republic of Ireland yesterday. 35 cases were confirmed in Donegal, there were 8 additional cases in Sligo and less…