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The Daily Telegraph leads with a multi-million pound legal action that has been brought against pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca branding its Covid vaccine “defective” and suggesting that claims about its efficacy were “vastly overstated”. The paper says one case is being brought by a man who suffered a brain injury as the result of a blood clot after having the jab, while another is being brought by a man who died after receiving it, adding that the “test cases could pave the way” for more in the future. The paper adds that the World Health Organization has said the vaccine is “safe and effective” for everyone over 18 and that side effects of the sort that have prompted the action are “very rare”. It also notes that independent studies have estimated that the vaccine saved six million lives globally in the first year of its rollout.