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Ireland should temporarily halt use of the Oxford / AstraZeneca jab after some reports of blood clots in vaccinated people, health authorities say.
The call came after a review by the Norwegian Medicines Agency showed that four new cases of “severe blood clotting in adults” had occurred after the injection.
Ireland’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Ronan Glynn said that following the report and discussions with the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA), the National Immunization Advisory Committee (CANI) had recommended “the administration of COVID-19 The AstraZeneca vaccine will be temporarily postponed from this morning, Sunday March 14. “
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He added: “It has not been concluded that there is any link between the AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine and these cases.
“However, following the precautionary principle and waiting to receive more information, the CANI recommended the temporary postponement of the COVID-19 vaccine. AstraZeneca vaccination program in Ireland.
“The CANI will meet again this morning. A new statement will be made later.”
Just two days ago the World Health Organization said the vaccination was “excellent” and “a causal relationship between the injection and the reported health problems had not been established.”
The Irish authorities have been pressuring the pharmaceutical company to speed up its supplies to the Republic.
Several other European countries temporarily suspended AstraZeneca jabs following reports of people suffering from blood clots.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) reported that a person in Austria was diagnosed with blood clots and died 10 days after vaccination, but stressed that “there is currently no indication that vaccination has caused these conditions.”
Another person was admitted to a hospital in Austria with a pulmonary embolism (blockage of the arteries in the lungs) after being vaccinated, while one death from a blood clot was reported in Denmark.
A 50-year-old man is also believed to have died in Italy of deep vein thrombosis (DVT), while there has been an unconfirmed report of another death in Italy.
Denmark, Norway and Iceland have said they are temporarily stopping all AstraZeneca vaccines to investigate the reports.
Italy also followed Austria, Estonia, Latvia, Luxembourg and Lithuania in banning injections of a particular batch of one million AstraZeneca vaccines, which were shipped to 17 countries, after reports of one death.
