Yesterday, Tuesday, the Swedish Public Health Agency announced that Astra Zeneca's vaccine will be suspended in Sweden while waiting for the European Medicines Agency, EMA, to investigate the suspected side effects that have been reported in connection with a number of people receiving the vaccine.
But Sweden's vaccine coordinator Richard Bergström does not currently believe that it will affect the country's vaccine targets to any great extent.
- It is paused now and is for a few days or a few weeks.
So it does not affect the whole picture because the vaccine doses that come can be saved for a while in the fridge, he says in SVT's Morgonstudion.
"Be an important vaccine"
According to Bergström, Astra Zeneca's vaccine makes up one - fifth of Sweden's vaccine portfolio.
- Astra Zeneca was an important vaccine for us in the beginning.
But it has been a break in deliveries and we have not been able to use it for the elderly, he says.
- So we have a lot of vaccines coming, the problem is that it goes so slowly.
But a break with Astra Zeneca does not affect the whole goal picture.
Hear more about how Richard Bergström views the decision on Astra Zeneca in the feature above.