Iceland, Denmark & Norway Halted the Use Of AstraZeneca Covid Vaccine for Two Weeks
On March 12, 2021, it came into notice that some European countries such as Norway, Denmark, and Iceland have temporarily suspended the use of AstraZeneca as a COVID vaccine over concerns about patients developing post blood clots. Denmark was the first to announce its suspension of all its AstraZeneca supply followed by Iceland and then Norway.
EU medicines regulator, however, has said that the AstraZeneca COVID vaccine can continue pending the blood clot probe even the suspension it’s been said is brief. These concerns being raised by European countries about the AstraZeneca vaccine, which is one of India’s main vaccines called Covishield.
AstraZeneca vaccine, which is the same as Covishield became a matter of concern in countries like Iceland, Denmark, and Norway. It could possibly be causing blood clots. And they’ve suspended this particular vaccine. This has been done basically in the three countries.
As per reports, Austria also joined the list. They took this decision based on the fact that there have been two patients reported there who had clotting and one death in Denmark and one in Austria.
An individual who a few days after vaccination developed clotting and a pulmonary embolism. One patient is also in the hospital but recovering. The number of people vaccinated in other countries such as UK has a huge number of people who have received AstraZeneca.
There have been no red flags as far as clotting is concerned. But there is a concern which the European medical agency has raised because of the fact that a few days after vaccination. Around 22 individuals had some clotting and they want to look at it in terms of whether it’s a coincidence, or there are a cause and effect.
Therefore for two weeks, the vaccination process has been suspended in these countries to really get more data. A huge number of people who’ve been vaccinated in millions across the world used AstraZeneca. This vaccine has been used extensively. They haven’t seen any such signals anywhere else.
