A World Health Organization (WHO) researcher on Wednesday asserted that there is no evidence linking deaths to any CCP virus vaccine, after numerous European Union countries and other nations suspended usage of AstraZeneca’s vaccine amid reports of blood clots. “There is no documented death that’s been linked to a COVID vaccine,” said Soumya Swaminathan, a WHO clinical scientist, in a news conference. “While we need to continue to be very closely monitoring this,” she added, “we do not want people to panic.” The U.N.-backed health agency would “for the time being recommend that countries continue vaccinating with AstraZeneca,” the scientist said, adding that more updates are pending on Thursday. Her statements follow ones made by the EU’s European Medicines Agency that the vaccine is safe, saying that “the benefits of the AstraZeneca vaccine in preventing COVID-19, with its associated risk of hospitalization and death, outweigh the risks of side effects.” But France, …