AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine has been estimated to have prevented 232,766 deaths in Vietnam, according to an independent assessment of vaccine effectiveness conducted by Airfinity.
Coronavirus: Denmark, Norway and Iceland suspend use of AstraZeneca vaccine over blood clot fears
Austria earlier stopped using a batch of AstraZeneca shots while investigating a death from coagulation disorders and an illness from a pulmonary embolism
European medicine regulator EMA says the vaccine’s benefits outweigh its risks and can still be administered
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Austrian authorities have suspended inoculations with a batch of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine as a precaution while investigating the death of one person. Currently there is no evidence of a causal relationship with the vaccination, BASG said.
Zurich: Austrian authorities have suspended inoculations with a batch of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine as a precaution while investigating the death of one person and the illness of another after the shots, a health agency said on Sunday (March 7). The Federal Office for Safety in Health Care (BASG) has received two reports in a temporal connection with a vaccination from the same batch of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the district clinic of Zwettl in Lower Austria province, it said.
A WHO statement said it had approved the vaccine as produced by AstraZeneca-SKBio (Republic of Korea) and the Serum Institute of India.The AstraZeneca/Oxford shot has been hailed because it is cheaper and easier to distribute than some rivals