Inside Politics: AstraZeneca vaccine ‘safe and effective’, says Boris Johnson

The PM is urging the public to have confidence in the jab after the regulator find a possible link to rare blood clots, writes Adam Forrest

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There’s nothing like fear of the unknown. The theoretical physicist Michio Kaku thinks Nasa’s new super telescope could lead to contact with alien civilisation. The scientist thinks the aliens would probably be “friendly”, but can’t quite be sure. Both Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer are telling the public there’s no need to fear the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. But the unknowns around the jab are causing consternation. The government’s scientists can’t quite be sure of blood clot links, so have recommended that under-30s are offered an alternative jab.

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