{"id":121306,"date":"2021-05-04T11:59:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T03:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121306"},"modified":"2021-05-04T11:59:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T03:59:16","slug":"covid-19-sweden-to-donate-1-million-doses-of-unused-astrazeneca-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121306","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Sweden to donate 1 million doses of unused AstraZeneca vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/world\/Sweden-to-donate-1-million-doses-of-unused-AstraZeneca-vaccine-1249840?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/693\/69324974.295.jpg\" alt=\"COVID-19 Vaccine\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>STOCKHOLM, May 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The Swedish government is donating 1 million doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine to poorer countries through the COVAX initiative, Development Minister Per Olsson Fridh said.<br><br>Fridh said that the vaccine from the British-Swedish pharmaceutical company is no longer needed in Sweden, reported the TT news agency.<br><br>The AstraZeneca vaccine has been linked to blood clots in very rare cases, which is why Sweden administers it only to people older than 65.<br><br>However, as the country is still expecting a large delivery of the vaccine that won&#8217;t be used, said Fridh, &#8220;it&#8217;s important we don&#8217;t sit on them and keep the doses when the whole world needs vaccines.&#8221;<br><br>The World Health Organization-backed COVAX programme is a global initiative aimed at providing equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines that many poorer countries rely on.<br><br>Denmark, which has completely stopped administering AstraZeneca jabs, has not yet decided what to do with its excess supply.<br><br>The Danish health minister is trying to trade the AstraZeneca doses for vaccines from another manufacturer. In April, the neighbouring German state of Schleswig-Holstein was &#8220;lent&#8221; 55,000 doses. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STOCKHOLM, May 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The Swedish government is donating 1 million doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine to poorer countries through the COVAX initiative, Development Minister Per Olsson Fridh said. Fridh said that the vaccine from the British-Swedish pharmaceutical company is no longer needed in Sweden, reported the TT news agency. The AstraZeneca vaccine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":121307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121306"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}