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Five Australians over the age of 50 have developed blood clotting and low platelets after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine in the past week, the Therapeutic Goods Administration has confirmed.
The TGA says it is also looking into three other reports of blood clotting in the last week but is yet to make a determination on them.
The five new cases were in a 74-year-old man and a 51-year-old woman from Victoria, a 66-year-old man from Queensland, a 64-year-old woman from Western Australia and a 70-year-old man from Tasmania.
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TGA head Professor John Skerritt said many of those had serious and significant underlying health conditions, stressing blood clotting following vaccination remained a rare event.
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