World Coronavirus Dispatch: UK, EU deliver setbacks to AstraZeneca shot

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AstraZeneca faces new setbacks in UK and European Union

Britain said it would curb the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine in adults under 30 because of the risk of rare blood clots, a blow to the efforts of scores of countries reliant on the vaccine to stamp out the coronavirus pandemic amid a global surge in cases. Adding to the unease, the European Medicines Agency outlined a “possible link” between the vaccine and rare clots, even as it said that Covid-19 remained the far greater threat, leaving decisions about how to use the vaccine in the hands of the