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Ireland suspends AstraZeneca Covid vaccine over blood clot concerns Ireland is suspending use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid as a precautionary measure following further reports of blood clots in people who have received it, this time from Norway. The deputy chief medical officer, Dr Ronan Glynn, said Ireland’s advisory body on vaccines had recommended that deployment of the AstraZeneca jab should be “temporarily deferred” with immediate effect. He stressed, though, that there was no proof that the vaccine had caused blood clots. The first reports of blood clots in people receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine came out of Austria and caused a flurry of concern, leading to a number of European countries such as Denmark pausing their use of it pending investigations. But Ireland cited the report into a death and three hospitalisations in Norway, which came out on Saturday. “Following new information received from the Norwegian Medicines Agency on Saturday evening