au Australia abandons COVID-19 vaccination targets after new advice on AstraZeneca shots Possible link between AstraZeneca product and rare cases of blood clots prompts country to stop using vaccine Australia has abandoned a goal to vaccinate nearly all of its 26 million population by the end of 2021 following advice that people under the age of 50 take Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine rather than AstraZeneca's shot.

ottawa Non-emergency surgeries have been postponed to free up staff to deal with the influx of COVID-19 patients Unlike the early stages of the pandemic, many of the patients now presenting with coronavirus variants are younger, between the ages of 30 and 60, Roth said