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While the country’s health agency emphasized the shot’s benefits outweigh the risks, it said it had decided against continuing to use the jab as the outbreak in the country is currently under control and other vaccines are available.
“Based on the scientific findings, our overall assessment is there is a real risk of severe side effects associated with using the COVID-19 vaccine from AstraZeneca,” Søren Brostrøm, director general of the Danish Health Authority, said in a statement Wednesday.
“In the midst of an epidemic, it has been a difficult decision to continue our vaccination programme without an effective and readily available vaccine against COVID-19. However, we have other vaccines at our disposal, and the epidemic is currently under control,” he said.
Copenhagen [Denmark], April 14 (ANI): The Danish Health Authority on Wednesday announced it will no longer use the AstraZeneca vaccine due to worrying feedback from the ongoing safety monitoring of the COVID-19 vaccines.
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