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AstraZeneca Covid vaccine safe, works extremely well: Boris Johnson

| @indiablooms | Mar 17, 2021, at 02:42 am

New Delhi/IBNS: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday came out in support of AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine after several European countries temporarily halted the use of the shot, following reports of blood clots in people who received the vaccine from two batches.

"That vaccine is safe and works extremely well," Johnson wrote in The Times newspaper.

"It is being made in multiple places from India to the US, as well as Britain, and it is being used around the world," he added.

This comes as Germany, France Italy and Spain have become the latest countries to temporarily halt the use of the vaccine.

Health officials from the UN and the European Union will meet this week on the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.

Agency chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told journalists that WHO’s Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety has been reviewing available data on the vaccine and will meet with the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on Tuesday.

“This does not necessarily mean these events are linked to vaccination, but it’s routine practice to investigate them, and it shows that the surveillance system works and that effective controls are in place”, Tedros said.
 

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