Updates on CCP Virus: UK Reports 5 Cases of Rare Blood Clots in 11 Million AstraZeneca Shots, Continues With Vaccine

Boxes of Sputnik V vaccines are unloaded from a truck at a warehouse of Hungaropharma, a Hungarian pharmaceutical wholesale company, in Budapest, Hungary, on March 4, 2021. Zoltan Mathe/MTI via AP

LONDON—Britain’s medicines regulator said there had been five cases of a rare type of blood clot in the brain among 11 million given AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine but said that it found the benefits of the shot far outweigh any possible risks.

Concerns about reports of blood clots, along with low platelet levels, have led to some European countries including Germany to pause the rollout of the shot while the cases are investigated.