AstraZeneca has announced that it has begun withdrawing its Covid-19 vaccine from circulation worldwide, Reuters reports.
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The announcement of the withdrawal of the vaccine followed shortly after the pharmaceutical giant was forced to admit that the vaccine can cause rare but very dangerous side effects – the formation of blood clots and a reduced number of platelets in the blood, notes the DailyMail.
The company explains that it has started a recall of its Covid-19 vaccine because there is a “surplus of updated vaccines available” since the pandemic.
“Since several variants of the Covid-19 vaccines have been developed since then, there has been a surplus of updated vaccines available,” the company said, adding that this has led to a decrease in demand for Vaxzevria, which is no longer manufactured and supplied.
The company’s application to withdraw the vaccine was submitted on March 5 and took effect on May 7, the Telegraph newspaper reports.
It has already been announced that at the end of April the company admitted that the vaccine can cause rare but very dangerous side effects.
A class-action lawsuit has been filed in the United Kingdom over claims the vaccine killed several people and left others severely ill. The company is being asked to pay damages of around £100m to almost 50 victims.
While AstraZeneca has disputed those claims, it admitted for the first time in a court filing that the vaccine “can very rarely cause TTS,” or thrombosis and thrombocytopenia syndrome.
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