Saturday, April 10, 2021, 09:27 GMT+7
A nurse draws from a vial of Johnson & Johnson coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 25, 2021. Photo: Reuters
Europe’s drug regulator said on Friday it is reviewing rare blood clots in four people in the United States who received Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine.
The European Medicines Agency’s safety committee has also been looking at how AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine is associated with very rare cases of unusual blood clots and said it was now reviewing reports of capillary leak syndrome in people given AstraZeneca’s vaccine.
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) said it was aware of the rare reports of blood clots in individuals given its COVID-19 vaccine, and was working with regulators to assess the data and provide relevant information.
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There had been no severe side-effects among the more than 235 000 people in Bulgaria who had received the AstraZeneca vaccination against Covid-19, national vaccination headquarters chief Professor Krassimir Gigov told Bulgarian National Radio on April 9.
Gigov said that the number of cases of side effects in EU countries after the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine were very small.
If a person had not experienced severe side-effects after the first dose, there should be no problem with the second, he said.
There was no scientific justification for using a vaccine for the second dose that was different from the first, Gigov said.