Staff member handles AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines stored at Region Hovedstaden’s vaccination center, Copenhagen, Denmark 11 February 2021. Ritzau Scanpix / Liselotte Sabroe via REUTERS
Denmark said on Thursday that it had not yet decided what to do with the remaining AstraZeneca (AZN.L) COVID-19 vaccines, after a senior figure from the World Health Organization suggested that the Nordic country would share them with other countries. .
Denmark this week became the first country to stop using the AstraZeneca vaccine at all, as European officials are investigating reports of rare blood clots in combination with a low platelet count in Europe and Britain. read more
The decision sparked a debate in Denmark over what to do with the vaccines.
Opposition parties have stated they will not run in the by-elections. The government has asked health authorities to investigate this option.
Denmark currently has just over 200,000 vaccines, but will receive another 3.5 million under previous agreements, the State Serum Institute told Reuters.
“The government has not yet decided what to do with the AstraZeneca vaccines purchased,” the Danish Ministry of Health told Reuters in an email.
The Norwegian government said on Thursday it would take longer to determine whether the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine would be resumed or stopped altogether. read more
The WHO, working with Britain and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to continue its recommendation of AstraZeneca on the grounds that the benefits outweigh the risks, has forced countries not to use vaccines they do not use. too cooked.
World Bank President David Malpass on Thursday called on countries to contribute their “excess” doses of COVID-19 vaccines to low-income countries.
Most of the vaccines that have been distributed worldwide so far have gone to affluent countries.
“I understand that the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs is ready, or is already investigating options, to share AstraZeneca vaccines with other countries,” WHO Director – General Hans Kluge told reporters on Thursday. said after talks with Soor Brostrom, director of the Danish Health Authority.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte said her country would like to take the shots: “We have even fewer vaccinations than people who are willing to be vaccinated. That is why Lithuania is ready to take as many doses of Astra Zeneca as Denmark is ready. is to share. “
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