British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is currently withdrawing its COVID vaccine worldwide, months after it admitted for the first time in court documents that it can cause a rare and dangerous side effect, The Telegraph reported.
The application to withdraw the vaccine was made on March 5 and came into effect on Tuesday, the report added.
The vaccine, developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, was produced by the Serum Institute of India as Covishield.
The vaccine maker has cited commercial reasons for the withdrawal.
AstraZeneca is facing a 100 million pound lawsuit in UK due to admission in court documents about a rare side effect caused by the vaccine.
In one of the court documents in February, AstraZeneca has said that its vaccines can "In very rare cases, cause TTS or Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome".
It has been predominantly associated with certain COVID-19 vaccines, particularly adenovirus vector vaccines like AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson's Janssen vaccine.
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