{"id":22425,"date":"2021-03-17T11:18:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T08:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=22425"},"modified":"2021-03-17T11:18:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T08:18:45","slug":"who-asks-africa-to-trust-astrazeneca-jabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/17\/who-asks-africa-to-trust-astrazeneca-jabs\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO Asks Africa To Trust AstraZeneca Jabs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A senior World Health Organization (WHO) official has urged African governments not to lose faith in the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, after several European countries suspended use of the jab. \u00ad<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Richard Mihigo &#8211; the WHO&#8217;s head of immunisation in Africa &#8211; said the product had so far proved to be safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier, the European Medicines Agency &#8211; which is investigating a small number of reports of blood clots following inoculation &#8211; reaffirmed its conviction that the benefits of the jab outweighed the risks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">African nations are relying on the AstraZeneca jab, as it&#8217;s cheaper and easier to store than other vaccines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many have already received doses under the Covax global sharing initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior World Health Organization (WHO) official has urged African governments not to lose faith in the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, after several European countries suspended use of the jab. \u00ad Dr Richard Mihigo &#8211; the WHO&#8217;s head of immunisation in Africa &#8211; said the product had so far proved to be safe. Earlier, the European Medicines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":17091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,467,98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-22425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-story","category-health","category-news","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22426,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22425\/revisions\/22426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}