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Greek authorities on Wednesday announced fines totaling 1.67 million euros ($1.81 million) on the local branches of two US-based health care and consumer products giants for alleged breaches of a profit cap imposed amid Greece's cost-of-living crisis.

That settlement is 590 million dollars worth. In addition to the significant monetary value, the settlement could be remembered by the fact that 574 indigenous tribes were recognized as a separate subject in the lawsuit, world media write, Radio Free Europe reports.

European Union, US and South Africa and  will temporarily stop the rollout of the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Covid jab, after reports of rare blood clotting.

Six cases were detected in more than 6.8 million doses of the vaccine, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said.

Johnson & Johnson has paused its EU rollout, which started this week.

As a result of renegotiation, Bulgaria expects to receive 2.7 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19 in April and May, or by the middle of June at the latest, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said on Sunday while inspecting the construction of a sport hall in the southern village of Topolovo, accompanied by Youth and Sports Minister Krassen Kralev and Health Minister Kostadin Angelov

EU officials have been warned by American drugs giant Johnson & Johnson that supply issues will impact an expected deliver of around 55 million doses of its jab to the bloc.

US firm Johnson & Johnson is likely to apply for EU approval for its Covid-19 vaccine candidate in February, a top lawmaker said on Wednesday.

Clinical data of the vaccine, which Johnson & Johnson is developing through its subsidiary Janssen, have been assessed by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) since Dec. 1 under a rolling review to speed up possible approval.

An US court has ordered the pharmaceutical giant Johnson and Johnson to pay $ 572 million in compensation for the opiate epidemic.

An Oklahoma judge ruled that the company was responsible for exacerbating the drug problem in the state, flooding the market with painkillers that were misleading patients.

A Greek court has convicted 13 people in connection with alleged corruption during state hospital purchases from DePuy, a subsidiary of US healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson.
The Athens criminal court on Tuesday acquitted another seven people over the same case, in which Greek hospital doctors allegedly took bribes to prescribe DePuy orthopedic products.

An appeals court in Athens has decided to postpone indefinitely the trial of 24 suspects in connection to the sale of orthopedic equipment to Greek hospitals by DePuy, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, between 2000 and 2006.

The judges decided to call off the trial after accepting an argument from the defense that the suspects had not been notified about the trial promptly.

Following six years of extensive investigations by Greek and British authorities, one of the largest scandals of corruption in the field of the Greek National Health System (ESY) will go before the Athens 3-member Court of Appeals, Monday.