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French vaccine chief says expects AstraZeneca vaccine halt to be temporary

Tue, 16th Mar 2021 07:49

PARIS, March 16 (Reuters) - French vaccination chief Alain
Fischer said on Tuesday he expects the suspension of
AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine in its inoculation
campaign to be temporary.

Fischer told France Inter radio that the number of cases of
people showing adverse side-effects from the vaccine remained
small.

He also said that the AstraZeneca vaccine was not a
second-tier vaccine.
(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta and Matthieu Protard, editing by
Louise Heavens)

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