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The vaccine has been suspended in several countries throughout the bloc, including France, Germany and Ireland, over safety fears. EU nations are siting reports of blood clots as justification for halting the use of the jab, but Brussels has been accused of using the British-made vaccine as a political move. Throughout the continent, a small number of cases have emerged of blood clots developing in patients after they received the AstraZeneca vaccine, leading EU member states to te
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The EU is sitting on a mountain of tens of millions of unused Covid jabs, an Express.co.uk analysis has found. Member states’ stockpile includes almost eight million AstraZeneca shots after 17 capitals continued to halt distribution of it over unsubstantiated fears it causes blood clots. EU governments have used just 48 million doses out of the 62.2 million delivered to them, according to official data published by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
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On Thursday, 11 March, Norway, Denmark and some other European countries suspended the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID vaccine post reports of blood clotting in some vaccine recipients. There were also reports that a 50-year-old man had died in Italy after developing deep vein thrombosis (DVT) following a dose of the jab.
However, the EU s medicines regulator said that there is no indication that the vaccine is linked to an increased risk of blood clots, reported
IANS. It said the number of cases in vaccinated people was no higher than in the general population.
“There is currently no indication that vaccination has caused these conditions, which are not listed as side effects with this vaccine. The vaccine’s benefits continue to outweigh its risks and the vaccine can continue to be administered while investigation of cases of thromboembolic events is ongoing,”European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Thursday, 11 March.