Netherlands: The European Countries were resumed Astra Zeneca vaccinations because safe and effective and not associated with a higher blood clot risk after days of commotion around the shot. The leading EU countries on Thursday said that after the European medical regulator’s announcement on the vaccine was safe and effective, we decided to resume the Astra Zeneca vaccinations.

The closely-watched announcement from the European Medicines Agency came after the WHO and Britain’s health watchdog both said the vaccine was safe, adding that it was far riskier to not get the shot as several countries face a worrying rise in Covid-19 cases.  After the EMA’s announcement, a raft of European countries said they would soon resume vaccinations, including Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Lithuania, Latvia, Slovenia and Bulgaria.

The EMA’s chief Emer Cooke said Thursday that after an investigation into the AstraZeneca jab, its “committee has come to a clear scientific conclusion: this is a safe and effective vaccine”. “The committee also concluded that the vaccine is not associated with an increase in the overall risk of thromboembolic events or blood clots,” she added.