{"id":3144,"date":"2021-03-16T16:19:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T16:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/?p=3144"},"modified":"2022-04-27T09:53:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T09:53:27","slug":"two-more-eu-countries-halt-astrazeneca-vaccination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/two-more-eu-countries-halt-astrazeneca-vaccination\/","title":{"rendered":"Two More EU Countries Halt AstraZeneca Vaccination"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two more countries in the European Union have suspended vaccinations using the AstraZeneca shot that was developed with the University of Oxford due to concerns that it has been causing blood clots to some people.<\/p>\n

European countries Sweden and Latvia on Tuesday announced they are halting the rollout of AstraZeneca vaccines as EU regulators are still conducting a thorough review of the vaccine.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Luxembourg, and Slovenia also ordered a halt in using the AstraZeneca shots. Last week, Bulgaria, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Austria ordered a halt in the use of the vaccine due to the blood clot concerns.<\/p>\n

Latvian health officials said the decision is based on reports from individual EU countries after cases of thromboembolism and similar cases of concern were observed at various times after receiving the vaccine.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo date, there is no data on the causal link between vaccination and serious health problems,\u201d Latvian health authorities said.<\/p>\n

The Swedish Public Health Agency, in a statement on Tuesday (March 16), said they have \u201cdecided to suspend the use of AstraZeneca\u2019s Covid-19 vaccine until the European Medicines Agency\u2019s investigation into suspected side effects is done.\u201d<\/p>\n

As of Tuesday, around 13 European countries have decided to suspend AstraZeneca vaccinations while a few others have stopped using individual batches of the AstraZeneca vaccine.<\/p>\n

In a statement<\/a> on Monday, the EU\u2019s regulator the European Medicines Agency said \u201cthe benefits of the AstraZeneca vaccine in preventing COVID-19, with its associated risk of hospitalisation and death, outweigh the risks of side effects.\u201d<\/p>\n

Events involving blood clots, some with unusual features such as low numbers of platelets, have occurred in a very small number of people who received the vaccine.<\/p>\n

Many thousands of people develop blood clots annually in the EU for different reasons, the EMA said. The agency also said the number of thromboembolic events overall in vaccinated people seems not to be higher than that seen in the general population.<\/p>\n

The EMA is now working closely with AstraZeneca, with experts in blood disorders, and with other health authorities including the UK\u2019s MHRA to investigate the concerns on blood clots based on its experience with around 11 million administered doses of the vaccine.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEMA\u2019s investigation has been continuing over the weekend, and rigorous analysis of all the data related to thromboembolic events will be carried out in the coming days. Experts are looking in great detail at all the available data and clinical circumstances surrounding specific cases to determine whether the vaccine might have contributed or if the event is likely to have been due to other causes,\u201d the agency said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The EMA\u2019s safety committee (PRAC) will also review the cases of blood clots and has called an extraordinary meeting on March 18 to conclude on the information gathered and any further actions that may need to be taken.<\/p>\n

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Two more countries in the European Union have suspended vaccinations using the AstraZeneca shot that was developed with the University of Oxford due to concerns that it has been causing blood clots to some people. European countries Sweden and Latvia on Tuesday announced they are halting the rollout of AstraZeneca vaccines as EU regulators are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"AstraZeneca Vaccination Suspended in More EU Countries Due to Blood Clot Concerns","_seopress_titles_desc":"Sweden and Latvia join the list of countries temporarily halting the use of AstraZeneca's vaccine as EU regulators investigate potential side effects.","_seopress_robots_index":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1004,1007],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3144"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3149,"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144\/revisions\/3149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}