Coronavirus vaccine news: AstraZeneca vaccines suspended in Ireland over side effect fears as UK deaths hit 5 MONTH low
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ASTRAZENECA’S coronavirus vaccine has been suspended in Ireland – over fears the British-made wonderdrug can cause serious side effects.
After Ireland announced on Sunday that it was suspending use of the jabs as a “precautionary step”, the UK’s medicines regulator said the available evidence “does not suggest the vaccine is the cause” of clots.
Several other European countries have already temporarily suspended use of the jabs.
Meanwhile one third of Brits are now vaccinated, with daily Covid deaths hitting a FIVE MONTH low of just 52 on Sunday.
On Sunday Neil Ferguson – dubbed ‘Professor Lockdown’ – predicted Brits can ‘enjoy the summer’ as most restrictions on our freedoms will be lifted.
However, despite his 80 per cent prediction – he warned there remains a 20 per cent chance that mutating virus variants could derail the progress, reports .
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