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March 16, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Sweden has become the latest country to add to a list of European countries which have suspended the use of Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine because of concerns about blood clots.
It followed France, Italy, and Germany, which halted distribution of the vaccine on Monday. The World Health Organization and other health authorities urged countries to keep using it, despite reports of a high rate of blood clotting events including deaths.
The European Medicines Agency and the World Health Organization were meeting on Tuesday to review the evidence and are expected to state that the reported incidents of blood clots are coincidental.
AstraZeneca said in a statement issued Sunday that there was no evidence of an increased rate of blood clots to the lungs, deep vein thrombosis (DVT) (potentially lethal blood clots that usually occur in veins of the legs or pelvis and may detach and travel through the right side of the heart, and block arteries to the lungs) or thrombocytopenia, in any defined age group, gender, batch or in any particular country.”
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