Several countries pause use of AstraZeneca vaccine to investigate blood clots

Denmark, Norway and Iceland suspend jabs while Italy and other countries hold off one batch

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Several European countries have either suspended inoculations with the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine as a precautionary measure or banned the use of a specific batch after after blood clots formed in some people who had received the jab.

Both the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker and Europe's medicines regulator said the vaccine was safe as Denmark, Norway and Iceland announced on Thursday they were temporarily halting all AstraZeneca vaccinations to investigate the cases.