Geneva, Switzerland.
WHICH said on Friday that “there is no reason not to use” the AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine, after suspending its application as a precautionary measure in several European countries.
“Yes, we should continue to use the AstraZeneca vaccine,” “there is no reason not to use it,” said Margaret Harris, a spokeswoman for World Health Organization this Friday at a press release of EL-HER-IT in Geneva.
Denmark, Iceland and Norway on Thursday announced the suspension of injections of the AstraZeneca vaccine, citing the “precautionary” principle. Bulgaria did the same on Friday.
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The Danish national health agency, the first to announce the decision, spoke of a precautionary measure against “severe cases of blood clots in vaccinated people”, although “at this time” no causal relationship has been established.
At begining of the week, Austria stopped taking a batch of these vaccines after a 49-year-old nurse died of “severe bleeding disorders” a few days after she was vaccinated.
The Anglo-Swedish laboratory and the British government reacted on Thursday to defend a “safe” and “effective” vaccine.
In turn, the spokesman of WHICH He pointed out that the organization’s experts are studying the information about the clots that no causal relationship has been established so far.
“Any security alert must be investigated,” he said.
“We must always make sure that we analyze all safety alerts when we distribute vaccines and we must examine them, but there is no indication not to use it,” the spokesman added.