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EurActiv (12 April 2021)

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez will this week detail further plans to manage the COVID-19 pandemic amid fierce criticism from the conservative opposition about the slow vaccination roll-out and controversy surrounding the AstraZeneca vaccine, EURACTIV’s partner EFE reports.

Sánchez is set to address parliament on Wednesday, a week after Spain’s health ministry moved to restrict AstraZeneca doses to those aged 60-69. 

The move followed an announcement by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) that cases of rare blood clots were mostly found in people below 60. The overall risk-benefit of the vaccine remains positive, it stressed.

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