Geneva, Switzerland.
The WHO stated Friday that “there is no reason not to use the AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine,” following the suspension of its use as a precautionary measure in several European countries.
“Yes, we must continue to use the AstraZeneca vaccine,” “there is no reason not to use it,” said Margaret Harris, a spokeswoman for the World Health Organisation this Friday at a press point of the HEM-HER-IT in Geneva.
Denmark, Iceland and Norway announced on Thursday the suspension of injections of the AstraZeneca vaccine, invoking the “precautionary principle”. Bulgaria did the same on Friday.
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The Danish National Health Service, the first to announce the decision, spoke of a precautionary measure against “serious cases of blood clots in vaccinated people”, although “at present” no causal link has been established.
Earlier this week, Austria stopped giving a batch of those vaccines after a 49-year-old nurse died of “severe bleeding disorders” just days after vaccination.
The Anglo-Swedish laboratory and the British government responded on Thursday to defend a ‘safe’ and ‘effective’ vaccine.
For its part, the spokeswoman for the WHO He emphasized that the organization’s experts are studying the information about the clots that have so far not established a causal relationship.
“Every safety alert must be investigated,” he stressed.
“We always have to make sure that we review all safety warnings when we distribute vaccines and we have to review them, but there is no indication not to use it,” added the spokeswoman.