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WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris delivered a calm message on March 12 before many countries became suspicious of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine – Photo: WHO
The statement was made at a brief press conference on March 12, amid signs that AstraZeneca’s list of countries that stopped vaccinating COVID-19 was showing signs of prolongation. However, according to Harris, the AstraZeneca vaccine is “excellent” and there is no reason to stop using it.
The WHO representative also said that the suspension of the AstraZeneca vaccine was only temporary and a necessary risk precaution. “We need to understand that and we must continue to use the AstraZeneca vaccine,” Harris was quoted as saying by the Reuters news agency.
In the wake of AstraZeneca vaccine fears, a panel of global experts advising WHO on the issue of vaccines went into a review and announced what they found, Harris said. This group always meets at least every 2 weeks and will publish detailed reports and evaluations soon.
“Of course, when a vaccine is implemented, it is always necessary to monitor whether it is safe and reevaluate. But there is currently no (unsafe) indication not to use the AstraZeneca vaccine,” Harris’s spokesman said.
According to Harris, there is no evidence of a “cause and effect” relationship between the AstraZeneca vaccine and blood clotting. Grandma Harris too citing more than 260 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine that have been injected worldwide, but no fatal cases of vaccination have yet been recorded.
Denmark has decided to suspend the vaccination of AstraZeneca within two weeks to clarify the information of people vaccinated with blood clots. People who experience this condition may have a pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis.
Norway, Iceland, Bulgaria, Austria, Estonia, Lithuania, Luxembourg and Latvia have stopped injecting all or part of the AstraZeneca vaccine lots received. However, Germany, France and Australia confirmed that the vaccine remains effective and will continue to be used.
In this context, the Spanish Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, confirmed that this country had used up all the doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine batch that the aforementioned countries suspected “problematic”. According to her, Spain has a monitoring system for people who have been vaccinated and has not registered any case of blood clots after the AstraZeneca vaccination.
According to the AFP news agency, common symptoms in people vaccinated with AstraZeneca are headache, vomiting or stomach pain. However, according to the European Medicines Administration, the list of side effects of the vaccine AstraZeneca will likely have to add anaphylaxis and hypersensitivity reactions.
