Boris Johnson receives first dose of AstraZeneca vaccine

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>British prime minister Boris Johnson has received his first dose of the Oxford&sol;AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Johnson was given the jab at St Thomas’ Hospital in central London shortly after 6&period;30pm on Friday evening&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He had previously dismissed concerns it was linked to blood clots&comma; and told the nation it was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;safe” at a press briefing on Thursday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His jab comes as new figures suggest half of adults in England are likely to have received their first dose of Covid-19 vaccine – making it the first of the four UK nations to pass this symbolic milestone&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A total of 22&comma;337&comma;590 people had been given a first jab as of March 18th&comma; according to NHS England&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This is the equivalent of 50&period;5 per cent of the population of England aged 18 and over&comma; based on the latest estimates by the Office for National Statistics &lpar;ONS&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile countries including France&comma; Germany and Italy began restarting their vaccine programmes with the AstraZeneca jab – reversing earlier decisions to suspend them over blood clot concerns&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The European Medicines Agency &lpar;EMA&rpar; said the AstraZeneca vaccine was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;safe and effective” and its benefits in preventing Covid-19 hospital admission and death greatly outweighed potential risks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The EMA has&comma; however&comma; been unable to say definitively that the jab is not linked to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;extremely rare” blood clots on the brain&comma; of which there have been 18 reports among millions of people vaccinated&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The World Health Organisation &lpar;WHO&rpar; and the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency &lpar;MHRA&rpar; have said that the jab is safe and have encouraged people to take up their vaccine appointments&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The WHO’s advisory committee on vaccine safety issued a formal statement on Friday saying the vaccine &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;continues to have a positive benefit-risk profile&comma; with tremendous potential to prevent infections and reduce deaths across the world”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e21a397058a">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; window&period;tudeMappings &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings&period;push&lpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;divId&colon; 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e21a397058a'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;format&colon; 'belowpost'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; document&period;readyState &equals;&equals;&equals; 'loading' &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;document&period;addEventListener&lpar; 'DOMContentLoaded'&comma; window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; else &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback&lpar;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;script>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>


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