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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
The world should be prepared for the coronavirus to continue to circulate long-term despite the roll-out of vaccines, the head of the EU's health agency ECDC Andrea Ammon tells AFP in an interview conducted via video call. "It seems more likely that it would stay. It seems very well adapted to humans. So we should be prepared that it will remain with us," she said in an interview. SOUNDBITE
Andrea Ammon, Director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, says in an online interview with AFP that potential vaccines developed against Covid-19 could "optimisitically" be brought into use in the EU in the first quarter of 2021, emphasising that she could not be certain. SOUNDBITE
At the Lille Regional Health Agency, French Prime Minister Jean Castex listens to an update on the resurgence of the Covid-19 epidemic in the Lille metropolis, where the wearing of masks is now compulsory in certain open public places. IMAGES
Nicole Notat, former boss of the CFDT union who has been in charge of piloting the "Ségur de la santé" - a two-month consultation on France's national health service in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic - officially submits her report to the Minister of Health Olivier Véran. IMAGES
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