Geneva, Switzerland.
the WHO declare this Friday that “there is no reason not to use” the vaccine against covid-19 of AstraZeneca, after the suspension of 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 conference of the HIM-HER-IT in Geneva.
Denmark, Iceland and Norway on Thursday announced the suspension of AstraZeneca vaccine injections, 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 in the face of “severe cases of clots in vaccinated people”, although “for the time being” no causal relationship has been established.
Earlier this week, Austria stopped administering a batch of these vaccines after a 49-year-old nurse died of “severe clotting disorders” days after she was vaccinated.
The Anglo-Swedish laboratory and the British government reacted on Thursday to defend a “safe” and “effective” vaccine.
For her part, the spokeswoman for the WHO emphasize that the organization’s experts are studying the information about the clots for which no causal relationship had been established at the moment.
“Any security alert should be investigated,” he stressed.
“We should always make sure to look at all safety alerts when we distribute vaccines and we should check them, but there is no indication not to use it,” the spokeswoman added.