Denmark, Norway and Iceland announced Thursday they will temporarily suspend the use of the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford.

The Danish Health Authority said it would temporarily stop using the shot in its vaccination program as a precaution “after reports of severe cases of blood clots in people who have been vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine from AstraZeneca.”

The European Medicines Agency has launched an investigation into the AstraZeneca vaccine. 

One report relates to a death in Denmark. 

The health authority said in a statement that it cannot be concluded whether there is a link between the vaccine and the blood clots.

It did not specify how many reports of blood clots there had been, or where they had originated.

Atiewin Mbillah-Lawson reports.