Gun ownership will still be legal, but guns won't be allowed in the streets or public places until the end of April. By doing so, the authorities expect to cut down on the
homicide
rate that saw 1,600 people murdered last year - that is more than four homicides a day. Critics of the measure have pointed out that the largest part of those killings involved non-registered weapons. They say criminals, who don't register their guns, are also unlikely to respect the ban.
The pharmaceutical company Pfizer is recalling a million packets of birth-control pills in the United States because they may contain the wrong amount of
contraceptive
agent. Jonathan Blake reports.
The tablets affected are made by Pfizer but sold here under the Akrimax Pharmaceuticals brand. Fourteen batches of a tablet called Lo/Ovral are affected along with another 14 of a generic equivalent. Some packets have too many active tablets, others too few, meaning a woman taking the pills could become pregnant accidentally. The tablets are not among the most popular birth-control drugs here. Those being recalled have
expiry dates
ranging from July 2013 to March 2014. Pfizer is advising any women who may have taken the affected pills to return them to their pharmacy and start using alternative
contraception
.
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