AstraZeneca vaccine is expected to be given tomorrow, Friday (19/3) by both the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson and the Prime Minister of France Jean Castex, after the announcement of the European Medicines Agency that the preparation is safe and is not associated with an increased risk of thrombosis.
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson assured today, as reported by APE-MPE, that the vaccines against Covid-19 of AstraZeneca / University of Oxford and Pfizer, used in Britain are safe, while he himself is expected to make the vaccine AstraZeneca tomorrow Friday.
“The Oxford vaccine is safe and the Pfizer vaccine is safe. “It’s not safe to be infected with Covid, which is why it is so important that we all get our vaccines as soon as it is our turn. Johnson said during a press conference on Downing Street.
“Apparently, I will do my own tomorrow and the center where I will be vaccinated is currently using the AstraZeneca / Oxford vaccine and that is what I will do.”
According to BFMTV, French Prime Minister Jean Castex is set to be vaccinated tomorrow with the AstraZeneca vaccine. Castex will later unveil new restrictive measures in France in the coming days to stem the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Vaccinations are resumed in European countries
Following the positive opinion of the EMA on the safety of the AstraZeneca vaccine, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands, which had suspended vaccinations, have announced that they are starting again.
Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said that “the Italian government welcomes the decision of the European Medicines Agency, Coreper” and added that “the AstraZeneca vaccine will be resumed tomorrow.
Finally, Draghi made it clear again that “the priority of the Italian government remains to be able to get as many vaccines as possible, in the shortest possible time.”
Latvia and Lithuania Vaccinations with the AstraZeneca vaccine will resume tomorrow, as announced by the Ministries of Health of both Baltic countries.
THE Bulgaria will resume vaccinations with the AstraZeneca vaccine tomorrow, while the head of the Bulgarian Drug Authority, Bogdan Kirilov, said today that an investigation into the death of a Bulgarian woman, who died a few hours after being vaccinated with the AstraZene vaccine, did not online death by vaccination.
“We have every reason to lift the suspension and resume vaccination tomorrow,” Kirilov said. The Balkan country has a stock of about 100,000 doses of the British-Swedish company vaccine.
Spanish Health Minister Carolina Daria has announced that vaccinations will be resumed next Wednesday. explaining until then that the authorities will decide which groups of the population will receive this vaccine. Spain suspended the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine on March 15, following the example of other European countries, for precautionary reasons. By then, nearly one million Spaniards (975,661 people) had received the vaccine.
On Wednesday, the Spanish drug service announced that it was investigating three cases of people who developed blood clots after they were given the vaccine and one of them died.
Portugal, for its part, is also lifting the temporary suspension of vaccine use and will start using it again from Monday. The first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine has already been given to 173,000 people, including Prime Minister Antonio Costa.
In Netherlands, Health Minister Hugo de Jongge announced tonight that vaccinations will resume next week.
Vaccinations are normal in Cyprus as well
The scheduled appointments for the administration of the AstraZeneca vaccine will normally take place from tomorrow, according to a relevant announcement of the Ministry of Health of Cyprus.
The announcement points out that following today’s scientific opinion from the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the Ministry of Health informs that from tomorrow, March 19, 2021, the vaccinations with the AstraZeneca vaccine will resume.
Therefore, citizens who have a scheduled appointment for vaccination are invited to come to the Vaccination Center where they have arranged their appointment, at the time they have arranged the appointment.
Compared to the appointments that were postponed from March 16-18, more details on how to reschedule them will be given in the press conference that will be given tomorrow.
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