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Britons can be confident in vaccine monitoring, health secretary says

Thu, 08th Apr 2021 07:16

LONDON, April 8 (Reuters) - Britons should be confident that
the system to monitor COVID-19 vaccines is working following the
change in advice on giving young people the Oxford-AstraZeneca
jab, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Thursday.

"People can be reassured that we have the high class safety
system run by our world class regulator (...) and then we're
totally transparent with all of the side effects, no matter how
extremely rare they are like these ones," he told Sky News.

Britain's vaccine advisory committee said on Wednesday that
an alternative to Oxford-AstraZeneca's vaccine should be given
to under 30s where possible due to a "vanishingly" rare side
effect of blood clots in the brain.
(Reporting by Paul Sandle and Sarah Young; editing by Costas
Pitas)

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