when france announced that it was suspending that vaccine that announcement was made by president marconi whose previously raised questions about the efficacy of the vaccine for older persons this is what he had to say. on . the decision which was also taken in accordance with our european policy is to suspend vaccinations with astra zeneca as a precaution hoping to resume it quickly if the opinion of the allows it so we are suspending its use from tomorrow afternoon. well they came fast in the footsteps of decisions had already been taken by island the netherlands denmark so what's the problem well originally this issue of a safety was raised off a day in denmark but since then there have also been questions raised over whether or not astra zeneca makes the people who have the job have blood clotting issues in germany they say that this is a professional law a political decision comes after 7 individuals are said to have had that issue in the country now the world health organization has said astra zeneca is safe the european medical's agency has also said it stands by it and says that t

manufactured by astra zeneca as salves are reports of a small number of cases of blood clots that marconi approved the astra zeneca vaccine 6 days ago for those above the age of 65 as bring in paul brennan who is in london for us for more on this so paul any reaction from oxford astra zeneca to this decision by denmark to poles the use of its. that samina reaction from zeneca yes i mean they said that they're in contact with the austrian authorities because austria too is stopping and using the one particular batch of astra zeneca jabs astra zeneca vaccines after 2 incidents that one was a death from a coagulation disorder and the other was an illness from a pulmonary embolism so these are all sort of vaguely blood clot related things the danish situation appears to be borne of an abundance of caution because the danish health authority has said that they haven't given any details of exactly how many blood clot cases there have been and they haven't given any details of the background history of the one person who's died in denmark but what they did say was that it was currently not possi