Pavluts hopes that vaccination with AstraZeneca vaccine could resume already this week
RIGA, March 16 (LETA) - Health Minister Daniels Pavluts (For Development) remains cautious in predicting when vaccination with the AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19 could be resumed in Latvia, but he hopes that it will happen as soon as possible, maybe even this week, when the European Medicines Agency (EMA) will present its report.
In a telephone interview with TV3 this morning, Pavluts said that on Thursday, March 18, the EMA will announce the latest research results on AstraZeneca s Covid-19 vaccine. I personally hope that by then we will be able to say that AstraZeneca [vaccine] is safe again, he said.
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Lithuania puts vaccination with AstraZeneca’s vaccine on hold temporarily 2021-03-16
VILNIUS - Lithuania has temporarily suspended vaccination with the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca.
“Within the last hour, I received a recommendation from the State Medicines Control Agency, which, like other EU countries, has recommended suspending vaccination with AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine as a precautionary measure until the final conclusions of the European Medicines Agency on the safety of this vaccine are available,” Health Minister Arunas Dulkys said at a news conference on Tuesday.
“This means that we will take the agency’s recommendation into consideration,” he added.
Latvia defers decision on resuming use of AstraZeneca vaccine until it receives more extensive info from EMA
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