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The General Directorate of Health and Infarctions is expected to announce this Monday the suspension of the administration of the AstraZeneca vaccine in Portugal.
SIC knows that the referral has already been passed on to health centers, which must immediately stop using the Oxford University vaccine.
This suspension must remain in effect for 15 days.
The announcement will be made at a press conference at the Infarmed facilities, initially scheduled for 7:30 p.m., which will be attended by the general director of Health, Graça Freitas, the president of Infarmed, Rui Ivo, and the coordinator of the group of vaccination work. against covid-19, Henrique Gouveia e Melo
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Spain, Germany, France and Italy suspend vaccination with the drug AstraZeneca
Spain, Germany, France and Italy announced this monday suspension of vaccination with the drug AstraZeneca.
French President Emmanuel Macron announced that the vaccine will be suspended in France “just in case”, as it happened in other European countries.
Many European partners have decided to discontinue the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine. A few minutes ago it was the turn of the German authorities. The European Medicines Authority will give its opinion tomorrow (Tuesday) on the vaccine and, until then, the Minister of Health and the health authorities have decided to suspend vaccination with AstraZeneca as a precautionary measure, “said the president at a press conference.
Emmanuel Macron also said that he wished that if the European authorities gave the green light to the vaccine again, vaccination with this drug would resume quickly.
The Spanish Government also announced this afternoon the suspension of the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine for 15 days.
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The decision was communicated this afternoon by the Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, in a meeting with the autonomous communities convened urgently, as reported by the Spanish press.
The German government also said today that it will suspend use of the vaccine due to new reports of dangerous blood clots related to this drug.
Italy also announced on Monday that it will suspend the administration of the vaccine, having revealed the Italian drug agency that it is a “precautionary and temporary measure” and that it awaits recommendations from the European Medicines Agency.
In total, 13 European countries have already made this decision.
