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“The National Immunization Advisory Board (NIAC) recommends that the injection of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine be suspended from this morning,” Ronan Glin, Ireland’s senior medical official, said in a statement.
Such a recommendation is a precautionary measure after “Norwegian Information from the State Agency of Medicines on four new reports of serious cases of blood clots in adults after vaccination, “the official explained.
Denmark, Norway and Iceland announced on Thursday that, as a precautionary measure, vaccination with AstraZeneca Covid-19 will be temporarily suspended due to blood clots forming in some patients after vaccination.
The Danish Health Authority was the first to announce this decision.
The move was made “after reports of serious blood clots in people vaccinated with AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine,” the administration said in a statement.
However, the Danish Health Authority added that “there is currently no established link between the vaccine and blood clots”.
EZA data show that by March 9, out of more than three million people who have received the vaccine European In the economic zone, in 22 cases, people clot after blood clots.
Austria AstraZeneca announced on Monday that it was suspending doses from the AstraZeneca vaccine consignment because a 49 – year – old nurse had died after receiving a vaccine from “serious blood clotting problems”.
As a precautionary measure, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia a Luxembourg have suspended the use of this AstraZeneca series. Doses of this series were sent to 17 European countries.
However, Denmark decided to suspend the use of all Covid-19 vaccines supplied to it by AstraZeneca, and Iceland and Norway have taken a similar decision.
EZA said on Wednesday that the initial investigation showed that the AstraZeneca vaccine was not likely to be responsible for the nurse’s death in Austria.
Denmark plans to review its decision in two weeks. The non-use of AstraZeneca vaccines is expected to delay the Danish vaccination campaign.
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