A review of the 17 million AstraZeneca vaccinations administered across the UK and the UK has shown no increased risk of blood clots, Wales' health minister has reiterated.
Speaking at the latest coronavirus briefing on Wednesday (March 17), Vaughan Gething said there had been 15 events of deep vein thrombosis and 22 events of pulmonary embolism reported among all those given the vaccine.
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Those figures mean that there have been 0.88 DVTs and 1.3 pulmonary embolisms for every million vaccines administered. Blood clots and embolisms occur naturally without the vaccine.
British experts have been keen to point out there no evidence the coronavirus jab has caused blood clots after some European nations halted its rollout.
People are being urged to have the jab as the European Medicines Agency (EMA) conducts a full scientific review – with France, Germany, Spain, and Italy pausing their programmes.
Mr Gething said: "The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency's (MHRA) very clear advice, which we echo, is that everyone should take up the vaccine when they are offered it.
"The same advice is given by the World Health Organisations, the European Medicines Agency and endorsed by all four UK chief medical officers."
The latest vaccination figures in Wales, which have just been published, show more than 33,500 first and second doses were recorded on Tuesday.
Mr Gething added: "We closely monitor the safety of the vaccine and will work with the MHRA to make sure vaccination continues to be a safe option to protect you.
"We’re making great progress vaccinating people in the first nine priority groups and we’re on track to offer vaccination to everyone in these groups by the middle of April."
Speaking about concerns over the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine earlier, Wales' chief medical officer Dr Frank Atherton said it was "safe and effective".
Dr Atherton, who had his first AstraZeneca vaccination last week, told BBC Radio Wales: "It is safe and it is effective. We have accumulated quite a lot of data on this.
"We have been using AstraZeneca vaccine extensively in the UK and we have looked at data through the regulator and the data that the company itself produces and there is no signal there that there is an increased risks or any particular side effects.
"It is safe, it is effective, and it is the best way to prevent coronavirus."
