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Denmark drops AstraZeneca jab for good, in European first

Denmark AstraZeneca vaccine

Tanja Erichsen, Head of Unit at the Danish Medicines Agency (right) and Soeren Brostroem, Director of the National Board of Health, address a press conference , on April 14, 2021 in Copenhagen to explain why the AstraZeneca vaccine has been stopped in Denmark.

Photo credit: Philip Davali | Ritzau Scanpix | AFP

By  AFP

Copenhagen

Denmark has announced it will stop using the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine altogether, becoming the first European country to do so over suspected rare but serious side effects.

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