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New Delhi residents receive a Covid-19 vaccine dose in a vaccination centre as India administered its billionth jab on Thursday, half a year after a devastating surge in cases brought the health system close to collapse. IMAGES
Bangalore / New Delhi, Jul 20 (EFE/EPA).- The official Covid-19 death toll in India stood at around 400,000 at the end of June 2021 but the reality could be “catastrophically worse,” with estimates of excess deaths in the Asian country during the pandemic being as high as 4 million according to a new research published Tuesday.Excess mortality is an estimation of the number of deaths from all causes during a crisis that are above normal levels.Earlier this year, India was overwhelmed by a huge second wave of Covid-19, which pushed the country’s hospitals to the brink amid a shortage of oxygen and medical supplies. (Camera: ARCHIVE).ARCHIVE FOOTAGE OF THE FUNERAL OF THE COVID-19 VICTIMS IN BANGALORE AND NEW DELHI, INDIA.
Kuala Lumpur, Jul 8 (EFE/EPA).- Malaysia has crossed the 10 million mark for the number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered to the population. A total of 10,036,361 doses of Covid-19 vaccine have been administered in Malaysia to date.Malaysia's population is estimated at 32.75 millions in the first quarter 2021, according to the country's Department of Statistics. (Camera: AHMAD YUSNI).SHOT LIST: VILLAGERS RECEIVE DOSES OF COVID-19 VACCINE AND LATER REST IN THE OBSERVATION AREA AFTER RECEIVING A DOSE OF COVID-19 VACCINE IN BANTING, NEAR KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA.
Sabine Straus, chair of the Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), says there is a "possible link" between the occurrence of blood clots and vaccination with Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine. SOUNDBITE
The chief executive of Britain's independent medicines regulator, June Raine, announces that out of 79 cases of blood clots in people having received a first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, 19 people have died, during a press conference over concerns about links between AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine and blood clots. SOUNDBITE
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