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Spain 'immediately' suspends AstraZeneca jabs for at least 15 days
MELCHOR SÁIZ-PARDO
...temporarily stopped injections of the Oxford University formula, this Monday (15 March). The Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, urgently convened a videoconference meeting of autonomous regions this afternoon and ordered them to stop using the formula. ... second week of February. Last Friday, Andalucía, Castilla y León, the Canary Islands, Catalonia and the Valencian Community blocked several thousand vials that were still in their warehouses from that batch, just hours after Health minister Darias ... continuing the vaccination campaign with AstraZeneca", according to the Head of the Biological Threats to Health and Vaccines Unit of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), Marco Cavaleri in the European Parliament. However, the EMA will meet with AstraZeneca