<p>India is not worried about some EU countries suspending use of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine and will continue to roll out the shot in its huge immunisation programme "with full vigour", a senior official said Wednesday.</p>.<p>The AstraZeneca shots, produced by India's Serum Institute, account for most of the 35 million coronavirus vaccines administered in the country so far.</p>.<p>European nations including France, Spain and Germany have suspended the vaccine's use because of worries it causes blood clots.</p>.<p>This is despite the World Health Organization saying the vaccine is safe and the EU's medicines regulator being "firmly convinced" that the benefits outweigh the risks of side effects.</p>.<p><strong>Also Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/international/world-news-politics/who-recommends-to-continue-astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine-use-963118.html">WHO recommends to continue AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine use</a></strong></p>.<p>Vinod K. Paul, a member of the government advisory body NITI Aayog, said on Wednesday that Indian authorities were reviewing data, but that there was nothing to suggest a "causal relationship" between the vaccine and blood clots.</p>.<p>"(I) again assure you that we have no signal of concern in this regard and therefore clearly, our programme (with the vaccine)... will go on with full vigour," Paul told reporters.</p>.<p>India was "watching the information being made available from other sources, but today there is no concern at all", he said.</p>.<p>The Serum Institute -- the world's largest vaccine maker -- has already supplied tens of millions of doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to dozens of mostly poorer countries around the world.</p>
<p>India is not worried about some EU countries suspending use of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine and will continue to roll out the shot in its huge immunisation programme "with full vigour", a senior official said Wednesday.</p>.<p>The AstraZeneca shots, produced by India's Serum Institute, account for most of the 35 million coronavirus vaccines administered in the country so far.</p>.<p>European nations including France, Spain and Germany have suspended the vaccine's use because of worries it causes blood clots.</p>.<p>This is despite the World Health Organization saying the vaccine is safe and the EU's medicines regulator being "firmly convinced" that the benefits outweigh the risks of side effects.</p>.<p><strong>Also Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/international/world-news-politics/who-recommends-to-continue-astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine-use-963118.html">WHO recommends to continue AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine use</a></strong></p>.<p>Vinod K. Paul, a member of the government advisory body NITI Aayog, said on Wednesday that Indian authorities were reviewing data, but that there was nothing to suggest a "causal relationship" between the vaccine and blood clots.</p>.<p>"(I) again assure you that we have no signal of concern in this regard and therefore clearly, our programme (with the vaccine)... will go on with full vigour," Paul told reporters.</p>.<p>India was "watching the information being made available from other sources, but today there is no concern at all", he said.</p>.<p>The Serum Institute -- the world's largest vaccine maker -- has already supplied tens of millions of doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to dozens of mostly poorer countries around the world.</p>