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Denmark has become the first country in the world to stop using Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus shot, weeks after the country banned AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine. https://t.co/iy6WuLaze4 @BusinessInsider

— Catherine Schuster-Bruce (@drcatherinesb) May 4, 2021

This morning/afternoon.

Denmark is the first country to exclude Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 shots from its vaccination programme over a potential link to a ‘rare but serious’ form of blood clot. It comes after the country stopped using AstraZeneca’s (AZN.L) vaccine altogether citing similar concerns.

The country’s health authority said in a statement it had found that “the benefits of using the COVID-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson do not outweigh the risk of causing the possible adverse effect in those who receive the vaccine”.

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