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WHO experts to discuss Oxford vaccine after suspension in some countries World Health Organization safety experts are preparing to meet over the AstraZeneca/Oxford coronavirus vaccine, whose rollout has been halted in several European countries over blood clot fears. The three largest EU nations – Germany, Italy and France – joined others in suspending the shot Monday, dealing a blow to the global immunisation campaign against a disease that has killed more than 2.6 million people. The World Health Organization, AstraZeneca, and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) have insisted the shot is safe, and that there is no link between the vaccine and reported blood clots. “We do not want people to panic and we would, for the time being, recommend that countries continue vaccinating with AstraZeneca,” WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said Monday. “So far, we do not find an association between these events and the vaccine.” The EMA said in a statement that “many thousands of