The UK’s medicines regulator will address blood clot concerns over the Oxford vaccine in a news conference this afternoon.

The briefing, together with the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, will be held at the Department of Health at 3pm.

Use of the jab for younger Britons has been reviewed following concerns at the weekend when it was revealed that 30 cases of rare blood clots had been recorded in the UK.

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The 30 cases were out of 18 million Oxford jabs administered.

The EU’s medical regulator is also expected to announce the findings of its own review into the jab, after several European nations paused rollout of the vaccine.

Meanwhile, Ravi Gupta, professor of clinical microbiology at the Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Diseases, has urged people to keep their vaccine appointments.

He told Sky News: “I think that’s on balance at the moment – there’s still transmission of COVID, and there is a risk to all of us of being infected, particularly as the economy is being opened up and society’s opening up, we are at risk of getting severe infection.

“So I would certainly be going forward for that vaccine in the current situation.”

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