Norway offers mRNA vaccine as second dose to AZ recievers

Norway will offer those who have received a dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19 to take an injection from an mRNA vaccine as their second dose, the health ministry said yesterday. Norway on March 11 suspended the rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine after a small number of younger people were hospitalised for a combination of blood clots, bleeding and a low count of platelets, some of whom later died. It is now awaiting a report from a government-appointed commission due on May 10 on whether to resume its rollout. The country, in the meantime, has offered second doses from the vaccines developed by Pfizer and BioNTech and Moderna to those who received the AstraZeneca shot as first dose.  Norway becomes the latest country to mix vaccines, together with Denmark, Finland, France and Germany.