COPENHAGEN, March 19 — Danish health authorities say they will hold off for now on resuming use of the AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19, despite an all-clear from the European medical regulator EMA. “Our decision to put vaccination with the Covid-19 vaccine from AstraZeneca on hold until...
A vial of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine in Paris March 11, 2021. — AFP picCOPENHAGEN, March 19 — Danish health authorities say they will hold off for now on resuming use of the AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19, despite an all-clear from the European medical regulator EMA.
“In the coming days, the Danish Health Authority and the Danish Medicines Agency will assess the impact of EMA’s review of the Covid-19 vaccine from AstraZeneca on the Danish vaccination programme,” he added. The Health Authority, which was to hold a press conference later today, noted that even though the EMA emphasised the benefits of the vaccine and called it “safe and effective,” the Amsterdam-based agency had said it “cannot rule out that there is a link between the few known cases of rare but severe blood clots and vaccination with the Covid-19 vaccine from AstraZeneca.”