Vaccine safety experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) meet later to review the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab, having urged countries not to pause Covid vaccinations over concerns about recipients who developed blood clots. On Monday, a WHO spokesman said there was "no evidence" the incidents were linked to the vaccine. However, Germany, France, Italy and Spain became the latest nations to halt their rollouts as a precaution, despite the European Medicines Agency saying the vaccine should continue to be used.
According to AstraZeneca, about 17 million people in the EU and the UK have received a dose of the vaccine, with fewer than 40 cases of blood clots reported as of last week. Our health correspondent Nick Triggle says this is "below the level you would expect" and "there is no strong biological explanation why the vaccine would cause a blood clot". UK regulators say evidence does not suggest a link to blood clots and that people should still go for vaccinations.

Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg hears the story of the Covid pandemic from 20 of the most senior politicians and No 10 officials, past and present. They talk of an initial "lack of concern", the absence of a "proper, 'emergency break-the-glass' plan" and arguments over the need for a lockdown before the urgency of the crisis became apparent. Insiders describe their fears during Boris Johnson's hospitalisation, public anger at the infamous Barnard Castle "fiasco" and the prime ministerial "rush of blood to the head" in reopening society last summer. And while there are mixed opinions on whether indecision in September contributed to the scale of the second wave, there's relief the expensive gamble on vaccines appears to be paying off.

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There's consternation on front pages at the decision by some countries to suspend use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine over concerns about blood clotting, despite scientists saying there is no evidence of a link. European leaders were accused of risking lives, according to the Daily Mail. It notes Germany, France, Italy and Spain paused the jab's use yesterday "against the advice of the EU medicines watchdog". The Daily Telegraph says the EU's vaccination drive was "thrown into fresh turmoil as a result". The Daily Express wonders: "What on Earth are EU playing at?"

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