Australia supports AstraZeneca vaccination as blood clots are diagnosed

Vials of AstraZeneca Plc and Oxford University Covid-19 vaccine.

Photographer: Anthony Devlin / Bloomberg

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Australia will not stop when the Covid-19 vaccine at AstraZeneca Plc is released, even though some European countries will ban the use of the images while blood clots are examined.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday that health authorities had not raised any concerns about the vaccine and would monitor developments overseas. Officials spoke to the European Medicines Agency overnight, the Australian Broadcasting Corps reported.

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Australia started the Pfizer / BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine about three weeks ago, and the AstraZeneca vaccine was approved for use last month. The country is expected to start making its home from the end of March.

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A nurse is being administered a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in Melbourne on 22 February.

The Morrison government on the Italian influence is banning about 250,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, although they have raised the issue with the European Commission.

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Earlier in the week, Trade Minister Dan Tehan said he was “deeply disappointed” by Italy’s decision and intended to work with countries, taking into account into Canada, Japan, Norway and New Zealand, to put pressure on the European Union to deliver shipments as expected, the ABC said.

“The more we can put pressure on them, the more they will realize that they are wrong,” the broadcaster told him. “I try to make sure they get that message loud and clear. ”

Some of the lobbying will be done through the Canadian-led World Trade Organization health body, known as the Ottawa Group, the broadcaster said.

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