Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagion caused severe acute respiratory syndrome by coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The disease has spread worldwide, resulting in an ongoing pandemic. Symptoms of COVID-19 are variable, but often include fever, cough, fatigue, breathing difficulties, and loss of smell and taste.
The health authorities in Denmark said that they are suspending the use of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine is a precautionary measure for some time after some patients incurred blood clots after receiving the inoculation and individual died. Similarly Norway and Iceland have also suspended the usage of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine for some time.
Denmark banned the vaccination days after the following reports of serious cases of blood clots among people vaccinated with AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine. The studies suggest that it has not been determined, at the nonce, that there's a link between the vaccine and therefore the blood clots. This has lead to temporary suspension of vaccine rollout until further notice.
It has been reported that COVID-19 disease is strongly associated with blood clotting and there have been hundreds if not many thousands of deaths caused by blood clotting as a result of COVID-19 disease.
However till the suspension, which will be reviewed after two weeks, there would be slowdown Denmark's vaccination campaign.
Specifically, the vaccine mass production has been stopped in Denmark and studies are ongoing on the some tests which are negative and after concluding results about the ongoing tests the medicine would be scheduled for vaccination. Till the suspension, which will be reviewed after two weeks, there would be slowdown Denmark's vaccination campaign.
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