Boris Johnson has has reiterated the message from the European Medicine’s Agency that the AstraZeneca jab is a safe and effective vaccine.
Speaking at this afternoon’s Downing Street press conference he said that a single dose of either the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccine provides a 60pc prevention from Covid-19, reduces hospitalisation by 80pc, and death by 85pc and urged the public to continue taking up the jab when they are called.
Earlier The European’s Medicine Agency (EMA) has said it is still convinced the benefits of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine outweigh the risks following an investigation into reports of blood disorders that prompted more than a dozen nations to suspend its use.
The UK health regulator also said there were no links between blood clots and the AstraZeneca jab, or the Pfizer vaccine.
“There is no evidence that blood clots in veins is occurring more than would be expected in the absence of vaccination, for either vaccine,” said June Raine, chief executive of the independent Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
