Following a dispute earlier in the year between AstraZeneca and the EU over vaccine supplies, the bloc introduced regulations to allow member states to stop manufacturers exporting vaccines if they weren’t fulfilling their obligations to the EU. And the Italian government exercised this right for the first time recently, withholding a shipment of AstraZeneca vaccines destined for Australia.
Then, just a few days later, Italy halted a batch of AstraZeneca vaccines from being administered so that it could investigate two deaths among recent recipients. Similar precautionary pauses have also taken place in a number of other European countries.
But the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has said that blood clots don’t seem to be appearing in vaccinated people any more frequently than would be expected across the general population. In the case of Austria – one of the countries to have paused its rollout – the EMA’s preliminary view is that the AstraZeneca vaccine is not linked
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Could COVID ‘vaccine certificates’ lead to discrimination? Al Jazeera English UP NEXT
With COVID-19 vaccines being rolled out across the world, countries have begun issuing certificates for people who have received the shots.
The move is raising concerns about the potential for discrimination.
In Israel, hotels and gyms are open for only those with a “green pass” to show they have fully inoculated, or have recovered from the disease.
Some countries, meanwhile, are considering travel bubbles for the vaccinated.
So will those who are not vaccinated be left behind as lockdowns ease?
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