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The World Health Organization (WHO) said this Friday that ‘There is no reason not to use’ Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine. The body came out to fix its position after the suspension of the use of this vaccine in several European countries as a precaution against the appearance of certain clichés of thrombosis.

“Yes, we should continue to use the vaccine. There is no reason not to use it, ”said Margaret Harris, spokesperson for the United Nations health agency, at a press conference in Geneva.

Denmark, Iceland and Norway announced yesterday the suspension of the use of the inoculant AstraZeneca due to the development of blood clots in immune people. Later, other countries joined.

The list of places where the application of the AstraZeneca vaccine has been temporarily suspended was extended today with the announcement of Bulgaria to the same effect.. The Prime Minister of this country, Boyko Borisov, explained that this decision had been taken “until the European Medicines Agency (EMA) raised all doubts about its safety”.

In accordance with what was stated by Harris on behalf of the WHO, that The regulator recommended that European Union (EU) countries go ahead with the application of the AstraZeneca vaccine. He did this after noticing that “The benefits continue to outweigh the risks”.

According to the EMA, Until last Tuesday, only 22 cases of thrombosis were recorded among the three million people vaccinated in the blockas well as Norway and Iceland, which participate in the common vaccination strategy.

The Danish national health agency, the first to announce the decision, spoke of a precautionary measure against “severe cases of blood clots in vaccinated people”, although “for the moment” a cause and effect relationship n has not been established.

Earlier this week, Austria stopped administering a batch of these vaccines after a 49-year-old nurse died of “severe bleeding disorders” days after being vaccinated.

Four other European countries – Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Luxembourg – immediately suspended vaccination with doses of this batch, which was delivered to 17 countries and included one million vaccines, and Italy, which did not receive any vaccine from this batch, also suspended the application.

The Anglo-Swedish laboratory and the British government reacted Thursday to defend a “safe” and “effective” vaccine.

For its part, The WHO spokesperson stressed that the organization’s experts are studying the information on the clots and that no cause-and-effect relationship has been established to date.. “Any security alert must be investigated,” said the spokesperson for the agency.

“We always need to make sure that we review all safety alerts when we distribute vaccines and we need to review them, but there is no indication not to use them,” Harris added.