WHO Scientist: COVID-19 Shots Safe, No Deaths – Urges Calm, World News

WHO Scientist: COVID-19 Shots Safe, No Deaths – Urges Calm, World News

GENEVA/ZURICH – The top World Health Organisation scientist reiterated on Monday (March 15) that there have been no documented deaths linked to Covid-19 vaccines, after several nations suspended use of AstraZeneca’s shot to probe possible side-effects.

“We do not want people to panic,” WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said on a virtual media briefing, adding there has been no association, so far, found between so-called thromboembolic events reported in some countries and Covid-19 shots.

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