Norway suspends AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine rollout

by Reuters
Thursday, 11 March 2021 13:12 GMT

OSLO, March 11 (Reuters) - Norway halted on Thursday the rollout of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, following a similar move by Denmark.

"This is a cautionary decision," Geir Bukholm, Director of Infection Prevention and Control at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, told a news conference. (Reporting by Gwladys Fouche and Terje Solsvik; editing by Victoria Klesty and Nerijus Adomaitis)

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