New Delhi: A link between AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 jabs and blood clots is plausible but unconfirmed, the World Health Organization’s vaccine experts said, stressing that reported occurrences were “very rare”.
“Based on current information, a causal relationship between the vaccine and the occurrence of blood clots with low platelets is considered plausible but is not confirmed,” the WHO Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety said in a statement. “Specialised studies are needed to fully understand the potential relationship between vaccination and possible risk factors.”
There have been 79 cases of rare blood clots, resulting in 19 deaths, in people who received the AstraZeneca vaccine in Britain, the country’s medicines regulator who is chief executive of MHRA reported on Wednesday.