TOP NEWS SUMMARY: AstraZeneca and Oxford insist Covid-19 jab is safe
Mon, 15th Mar 2021 11:00
(Alliance News) - The following is a summary of top news stories Monday.
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The director of the Oxford Vaccine Group said there was no link between the jab it developed with Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca and blood clotting, after several countries suspended its use. Andrew Pollard said there was "very reassuring evidence that there is no increase in a blood clot phenomenon here in the UK, where most of the doses in Europe been given so far". "It's absolutely critical that we don't have a problem of not vaccinating people and have the balance of a huge risk, a known risk of Covid, against what appears so far from the data that we've got from the regulators – no signal of a problem," he told BBC Radio. Ireland and the Netherlands on Sunday became the latest countries to suspend their use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine out of precaution. Denmark, Norway and Iceland have also paused their rollout of the jab.