Claim: Seventeen countries have banned the AstraZeneca vaccine outside of the UK.
Fact-check: 17 countries haven't 'banned' the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine - Full Fact
Verdict: this is not the case. at the time of writing, 17 countries in europe have temporarily stopped giving it out whilst waiting for a review from the european medicines agency. they have not "banned" it.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Grace Rahman
Date published: 2021-03-17T00:00:00