EU vaccine chaos is continued and has
messed about taking far too long to authorize vaccines. Denmark, Iceland and
Norway have temporarily banned the use of AstraZeneca’s pandemic virus vaccine.
There were concerns that patients were developing blood-clots after taking the
first shot of AstraZeneca. Earlier, there were complaints of allergy after
taking the Pfizer vaccine. Denmark is the first nation to put ban on AstraZeneca
after a 60 year old woman died of developing blood-clot.
Health Authority of the country stated
the link between the vaccine and blood clots are yet to be determined. European
Medicines Agency (EMA) has launched an investigation into the AstraZeneca
vaccine. Denmark suspension might slow down the country’s vaccination campaign.
Followed by Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and
Luxembourg suspended AstraZeneca vaccine. Apart from EU nations, South Africa, Thailand
and Iran also suspended the vaccine.
On March 09th, Austria had
announced that it had suspended the use of batch of AstraZeneca vaccines.
Estonia, Lithonia and Luxemburg used the same batch of vaccines. Italy would suspend
the use of a batch of the vaccine following the death of two women. Astrazeneca
said that patient safety was the priority while doing trails. EMA said that
batch ABV5300 had delivered to 17 EU nations comprising 1 million doses. This
batch seems to create the problems to EU nations.
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