The European Union has called for an Emergency Vaccine Summit after more than 8 European nations decided to stop using the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine due to serious blood clot incidents reported in many countries.
The EMA (European Medicines Agency) is to hold an emergency meeting after EU states press pause on their rollouts of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. This meeting is to hold on Thursday to think about the next move after the suspension decision taken by many EU nations.
Authorities have reported blood-clotting incidents associated with this vaccine. These incidents occurred in people who got vaccinated from one batch of million AstraZeneca doses distributed across several EU nations.
The EMA said it was looking at blood-clotting as well as reports of unusual features, such as low platelet numbers reported in a small number of recipients of the AstraZeneca jab, adding the rate of clotting incidents did not appear “to be higher than that seen in the general pop...