Denmark announced Monday to give up the American single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine for its coronavirus vaccine campaign because of the rare side effects of thrombosis.

The Scandinavian country was the first in Europe to abandon the Swedish-British AstraZeneca vaccine last April. 

The first country in Europe to abandon AstraZeneca's vaccine against Covid-19 in April, Denmark announced on Monday that it would also do away with that of Johnson & Johnson because of possible serious side effects, despite the green lights of the European regulator and WHO to use it.

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"The Danish National Health Authority has concluded that the benefits of using Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine do not outweigh the risk of causing a possible side effect, VITT (a very rare type serum injection thrombosis), in people receiving the vaccine. Therefore, (she) will continue the Danish Covid-19 mass vaccination program without the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, "he said. - she indicated in a press release