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7 people died out of 30 cases in the UK had a blood clot after injecting AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine.
“It is sad that 7 out of 30 cases of blood clots have died as of March 24,” the UK Medicines and Health Products Administration (MHRA) said today.
It is not clear if the blood clots appeared due to the vaccine or by coincidence.
On April 1, the MHRA said it had listed 22 people with cerebral venous thrombosis, an extremely rare brain clotting disease, and eight other cases of platelet-related clotting out of a total of 18.1 million. 24. The above figure is many times higher than the 5 cases previously announced.
AstraZeneca vaccine vials and syringes in November 2020. Image: AFP.
The Covid-19 vaccine developed jointly by AstraZeneca with the University of Oxford, UK, has been approved for emergency use or marketed in more than 50 countries, including the UK and the European Union (EU).
After more than a dozen European countries stopped using the AstraZeneca vaccine last month due to safety concerns, the European Pharmaceutical Authority opened an investigation and determined that the AstraZeneca vaccine was “effective, safe,” not related to clotting. muscular.
Many European countries have resumed injecting AstraZeneca because they believe that the benefits of the vaccine outweigh the risks it poses to people who inject. However, some countries do not recommend vaccination for people under the age of 60 or 55, including Germany, Canada, and the Netherlands.
“The benefits in preventing Covid-19 and its complications continue to outweigh any risks. The public should continue to vaccinate when requested,” said Dr. June Raine, Executive Director of the MHRA.
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