France,Italy and Germany too suspend AstraZeneca vaccine

France,Italy and Germany joined the group of countries who suspended AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines over health related concerns.

Earlier it was reported that Astrazeneca’s Covid-19 vaccines caused dangerous blood clots in some recipients. However, the company and European regulators denied the allegations that vaccine caused blood clots in some recipients. Earlier countries including Denmark, Ireland, Thailand, Northern Italy and the Netherlands had stopped inoculating AstraZeneca vaccine amid reports of serious blood clotting.

“The decision has been made… to suspend the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine as a precaution, hoping that we can resume it quickly if the judgement of the EMA allows it,” French President Macron said at a press conference, adding that an announcement by the EMA was expected on Tuesday afternoon.

Becoming the latest country to halt the use of Astraeneca vaccine, Italy too announced that they are suspending the AstraZeneca.

The Italian medicines authority AIFA said it was taking the decision as a “precautionary and temporary measure” pending rulings by the European Medicines Agency, a LiveMint report said.

The announcements came shortly after Germany took the same step, and followed the seizure of hundreds of thousands of doses of the vaccine by Italian prosecutors in the northern region of Piedmont, the report said.

This suspension of the use of AstraZeneca Plc’s Covid-19 vaccine is amid a growing health scare that’s creating yet another delay for the European Union’s inoculation campaign.

According to the report the country cited the recommendation of the Paul Ehrlich Institute, which oversees vaccine safety, according to a statement from the health ministry on Monday.