Name: Ireland suspends Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine over blood clots - BBC News
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The authorities in the Republic of Ireland have recommended temporarily suspending the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine while investigations are carried out into four new reports of blood clotting in patients who received the jab in Norway.

Well, our health correspondent Louise Cullen, gave me this update well then in the Republic of Ireland, statement was issued this morning that it would be suspending the use of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine following those reports from Norway.

The deputy chief medical officer for Ireland doctor running Glynn says it is precautionary, but these reports from Norway and several other countries have included what they call from politic events clots, skin bleeds and so on.

But it's important to say they've been around 30 of those events across Europe and that side of five million Europeans getting the job.

European Medical Medicines Agency, the European regulator and the World Health Organization has said there's no evidence to establish a link between getting the vaccine and these thrown politic events, and this suspension is being described as I say as precautionary.

But Ireland joins a list of European countries that have now suspended either the vaccine or certain batches of it, while investigations are being carried out to see if there is a link or to establish some safety parameters.

Now the National Immunization Advisory Committee in Ireland is meeting this morning following that announcement, and there should be an update later today.

 That's Louise Kelly and our health correspondent. 