Astrazeneca withdraws Covid vaccine, weeks after report on rare side effects. This comes after the application to withdraw the vaccine was made on March 5 this year and came into effect on Tuesday.
Weeks after admitting that its Covid vaccine can cause rare side effects, AstraZeneca Tuesday announced that it is withdrawing the Oxford-AstraZeneca novel coronavirus shot worldwide.
According to a report by The Telegraph, AstraZeneca said the vaccine was being removed from markets for commercial reasons. The vaccine was no longer being manufactured or supplied, after being superseded by updated vaccines which have the capability to tackle new variants, the report stated.
According to the report, the vaccine can no longer be used in the European Union after the company voluntarily withdrew its “marketing authorisation”.
The application to withdraw the vaccine was made on March 5 this year and came into effect on Tuesday.
The pharmaceutical company is being sued in a class action over claims that its vaccine against Covid-19, developed with the University of Oxford, caused death and serious injury, including TTS — Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome — which causes people to have blood clots and a low blood platelet count.
