Denmark has announced that it doesn't need the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine and has removed it from its vaccination programme, CNN news website reported on Wednesday.
The Danish Health Authority has stated that the AstraZeneca vaccine is not needed because Denmark has already reached "such an advanced point" in its vaccine rollout. It added that all booked vaccines from AstraZeneca would be cancelled.
Director General of the Danish Health Authority, Søren Brostrøm, was quoted as saying: "We are basically in agreement with EMA's assessment regarding the AstraZeneca vaccine. That is why it is important to emphasise that it is still an approved vaccine [in Europe]. And I understand if other countries in a different situation than us choose to continue using the vaccine."
The use of AstraZeneca was paused on 11 March 2021, but the Danish vaccination effort has continued with the vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna. The country has now vaccinated 1,000,000 Danes.
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