Coronavirus live news: Johnson & Johnson to ‘proactively delay’ vaccine rollout in Europe over blood clot reports
by Nadeem Badshah (now); Jedidajah Otte, Martin Belam from World news | The Guardian on (#5GGNP)
Move to delay vaccine deployment in Europe comes after six blood clot cases detected among Johnson & Johnson jab recipients in US
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