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| - These are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: Anglo/Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has announced a fresh shortfall in planned vaccine shipments to the European Union, citing production problems and export restrictions. The blow comes as DR Congo became the latest country to suspend its rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine over blood clot fears. However the World Health Organization has stressed that no causal link has been established between the vaccine and blood clotting. Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Latvia call for talks among EU leaders regarding "huge disparities" in the distribution of vaccines. In a letter to European Union leaders, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz suggested that some members nations may have signed "secret contracts" with vaccine companies to receive more doses than they were entitled to under EU-wide agreements. France hopes to exceed its target of getting 10 million people vaccinated by mid-April, Prime Minister Jean Castex says, after the country's death toll passed 90,000 on Friday. Health workers in the United States have administered more than 100 million Covid-19 vaccine doses, around 30 percent of the world's total of shots given so far. Some 65.9 million people have received at least one dose in the world's hardest-hit country, while 35 million are now fully vaccinated, or 10.5 percent of the total population of 331 million. Italy announces a partial lockdown for much of the country from Monday following a fresh surge in infections of coronavirus that will see schools, restaurants, bars and museums closed. The populous northern regions including Lombardy, which surrounds Milan, as well as others including Lazio, which surrounds Rome, will be designated "red zones". The World Health Organization approves the Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine for emergency use, after already authorising the jabs made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca. More than 2.64 million people have died of coronavirus around the world since the outbreak began in December 2019, according to an AFP tally from official sources. The US is the worst-affected country with 532,590 deaths followed by Brazil (275,105), Mexico (193,851), India (158,446) and Britain (125,343). North America recorded a decrease in the number of new Covid-19 cases last week, but they rose in the rest of the world, according to a specialised AFP database. burs-ot/dl/jj
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