Three European countries including Denmark, Iceland, and Norway have suspended the use of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine as a precaution amid reports of blood clotting in some people who have received it.


Nigerian authorities currently rolling out the vaccine like many other African countries have assured residents that there is no cause for alarm regarding the batch of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine delivered to the country by COVAX

In Ghana, Dr Kingsley Nyarko, Member of Parliament for Kwadaso als urged the people in the area to ignore all the misinformation and fake news circulating on social media about the covid-19 vaccine from COVAX

At least 22 of Africa’s 54 countries have received COVID-19 vaccine through the COVAX initiative to ensure that ensures low- and middle-income countries receive vaccines, most of them AstraZeneca


The Danish health authority said that there was a reported death in the country but that “at present, it cannot be concluded whether there is a link between the vaccine and the blood clots.”
Use of the vaccine will be suspended until further notice, the health authority said on Thursday, but the decision will be reviewed in two weeks’ time.

Shortly after the Danish announcement, Iceland followed suit. Hours later, the Norwegian health authority also said they too would suspend vaccinations after the report from Denmark.

France and the UK have however ruled out the following suit for now, stressing the suspension in other countries “is a precautionary measure”.

It comes after Austria suspended a batch of the vaccines following the death of a woman due to multiple blood clots and the hospitalisation of another person with a blockage in the arteries of the lungs.

The vaccine batch, which consisted of one million doses, was subsequently suspended in four other EU countries as a precaution.

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