LONDON, March 15 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris
Johnson said on Monday that AstraZeneca's COVID-19
vaccine was safe and that the government was very confident
about using it in its vaccination push.
Asked if he could reassure people that the shot was safe,
Johnson said: "Yes I can."
"In the MHRA (Britain's medicines regulator), we have one of
the toughest and most experienced regulators in the world. They
see no reason at all to discontinue the vaccination programme,"
he said.
"So we continue to be very confident about the programme and
it's great to see it being rolled out at such speed across the
across the UK."
(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge and Kate Holton)