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Covid-19 vaccination in Lithuania. / D. Umbrasas/LRT
Lithuania s medicine control agency received 837 reports on adverse reactions to Covid-19 jabs in April. Most were linked to AstraZeneca vaccines.
“Four vaccines available on the market are used for vaccinating Lithuania’s residents now and 837 reports on suspected adverse reactions were received during the fourth month of vaccination,” Gytis Andrulionis, the head of the State Medicines Control Agency, told reporters on Monday.
Out of the total reports on adverse reactions, 218 reports were linked to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, 58 to the Moderna vaccine, and 559 to the AstraZeneca vaccine.
“This vaccine is absolutely dominant in terms of [adverse reaction] reports,” Andrulionis said of the AstraZeneca’s vaccine.