A pronouncement from the EMA is expected tomorrow. The decision taken “after an interview between Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Health Minister Roberto Speranza”
A pronouncement from the EMA is expected tomorrow. The decision taken “after an interview between Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Health Minister Roberto Speranza”
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Opinion suspended on the Anticovid vaccine developed by the Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, held responsible for some suspicious deaths despite the positive outcome of clinical tests and the administration already completed for millions of doses throughout Europe. After the stop to an entire batch of the vaccine ordered yesterday by the Piedmont crisis unit following the death of a teacher in Biella – in addition to some deaths in Sicily on which investigations are underway – the Italian Medicines Agency ( Aifa) has decided today to suspend the administration of the vaccine throughout the national territory.
Decision after a Draghi-Hope confrontation
Aifa, reads a press release, “has decided to extend the ban on the use of the AstraZeneca Covid19 vaccine, pending the rulings of the EMA (the European Medicines Agency, ed.) throughout the national territory “. The Agency underlines that this decision “was taken in line with similar measures adopted by other European countries”. In coordination with the EMA and the other European countries, Aifa “will jointly evaluate all the events that have been reported following vaccination and will promptly disclose any further information that may become available, including the additional methods of completing the vaccination cycle for those who have already received the first dose “.
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Sources from the Ministry of Health then underline that the choice of AIFA “was made after an interview between the Prime Minister Mario Draghi and the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza”, fresh from a series of talks with the Health Ministers of Germany, France and Spain.
The alignment of the major EU countries
The decision of our Agency on drugs follows the line adopted in these hours also by Germany, as confirmed today by the German Ministry of Health on the basis of the new indications of the Paul Ehrlich Institute, in light of the new cases of thrombosis. “If the checks clear the field of doubts by noting that there is no causal link with the cases of thrombosis,” it will be possible to resume vaccination with AstraZeneca “, explained the German Health Minister, Jens Spahn, after announcing to the press in Berlin the temporary stop to the AstraZeneca vaccine. “The EMA will have to determine if and how the new knowledge affects the authorization of the vaccine,” he concluded.
France also followed the same cautious path taken by Italy and Germany. Simultaneously with the decision of AIFA, whose health authorities in Paris have stopped the administration of the Anglo-Swedish vaccine for 24 hours, pending the opinion of the EMA, expected for tomorrow afternoon, March 16. The same had been decided yesterday by the Netherlands, again as a precaution and until March 28, and last week Denmark, Norway and Iceland, the first countries in the European area to inaugurate the line of maximum prudence, based on the suspension of the vaccination campaign. waiting for further information,.