EMA to issue guidance for AstraZeneca vaccine in under-60s, Dutch to pause in under-60s: health minister

AMSTERDAM - Hugo De Jonge, in charge of the Dutch response to the pandemic, wrote that the government had decided to pause AstraZeneca vaccinations for people under 60 pending advice from the European Medicines Agency (EMA), which was holding a briefing at 1400 GMT.

"The EMA will issue that advice for people younger than 60 today," he wrote on Facebook.

 

(Reporting by Toby Sterling and Bart Meijer; Writing by Anthony Deutsch; Editing by Kevin Liffey)