Austria Suspends AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Batch After Death

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A vial of Astra Zeneca coronavirus vaccine is seen at a vaccination centre in Westfield Stratford City shopping centre, amid the outbreak of CCP virus disease (COVID-19), in London, on Feb. 18, 2021. (Henry Nicholls/Reuters)

A vial of Astra Zeneca coronavirus vaccine is seen at a vaccination centre in Westfield Stratford City shopping centre, amid the outbreak of CCP virus disease (COVID-19), in London, on Feb. 18, 2021. (Henry Nicholls/Reuters) WORLD

By Reuters March 7, 2021 / theepochtimes.com

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.

“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.

One 49-year-old woman died as a result of severe coagulation disorders, while a 35-year-old woman developed a pulmonary embolism and is recovering, it said. A pulmonary embolism is an acute lung…

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