Until the 29th of this month as a precautionary measure… More countries suspend AZ vaccine vaccination in Europe
AZ refutes “There is no evidence of increased risk of blood clots as a result of safety review”
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Song Soo-kyung = Reuters and AFP reported on the 14th (local time) that the Netherlands has decided to stop the use of AstraZeneca’s novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) vaccine by at least the 29th of this month. Reported.
According to reports, the Dutch health authorities said the decision was made as a precautionary measure and was based on reports from Denmark and Norway of possible serious side effects.
The Dutch Ministry of Health has announced that “the Dutch pharmaceutical authorities have decided to stop vaccinating the AstraZeneca vaccine while awaiting further investigation as a precautionary measure based on new information,” the AFP news agency said.
According to the Dutch local ANP news agency, 43,000 vaccination reservations are expected to be canceled due to this action by the authorities.
Previously, Norway’s health authorities announced at a press conference the previous day that three medical staff who received the AstraZeneca vaccine showed very rare symptoms such as blood clots, bleeding, and platelet reduction, and were hospitalized and treated.
Norwegian health officials say they are very sick and take the issue very seriously, although the causal relationship between their symptoms and vaccination is not yet known. All of these medical staff are known to be under the age of 50.
Norwegian health authorities have launched an investigation with the European Medicines Agency (EMA), which is the drug regulatory authority of the European Union (EU).
In connection with the discovery of severe blood clots in Norway, Ireland also temporarily suspended the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine as a preventive measure.
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A 58-year-old teacher who was given the AstraZeneca vaccine, a 58-year-old teacher in the northern Italian province of Piedmont, also took steps to temporarily suspend the vaccination of the vaccine, serial number’ABV5811′, which the teacher vaccinated shortly after his death that morning.
Previously, Italian health authorities temporarily suspended the vaccination of the manufacturing unit on the 11th in connection with the deaths of a 43-year-old naval agent and a 50-year-old police officer who vaccinated AstraZeneca of’ABV2856′ in Sicily.
Recently, in Europe, more and more countries postpone vaccination after reports of blood clots in some of the AstraZeneca vaccinations.
Currently, Norway, Denmark, Austria, Iceland, and Bulgaria have also temporarily suspended vaccination for some or all of the AstraZeneca vaccine’s production units in order to prevent unforeseen events.
However, the World Health Organization (WHO) and EMA argue that there is no reason to stop using the AstraZeneca vaccine, saying that there is no causal relationship between the vaccine and the formation of blood clots.
The UK, France, Spain, the Netherlands, and Sweden continue to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Amid controversy over the possibility of occurrence of side effects such as blood clots, AstraZeneca said in a statement released today that a safety review of more than 17 million people vaccinated with the Corona 19 vaccine in the EU and the UK showed no evidence of an increase in the risk of blood clots. Revealed.
AstraZeneca explained through a spokesperson on the 12th that it had not found any evidence that its Corona 19 vaccine increased the risk of blood clots.
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