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World health experts to meet to review AstraZeneca vaccine after safety concerns

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direct to your inbox The World Health Organisation (WHO) is urging countries to continue using the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine as global medical leaders meet to discuss reports of blood clots.

WHO’s global advisory committee on vaccine safety will hold a meeting today, while the European Medicines Agency (EMA) will also meet, with a view to publishing further guidance on Thursday.Dr Soumya Swaminathan, WHO’s chief scientist, told a media briefing “we do not want people to panic”, as she said no association has been found so far between blood clots and Covid-19 vaccines.She said the rates at which blood clots have occurred in people who received the AstraZeneca vaccine “are in fact less than what you would expect in the general.

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