After the death of a nurse, Austria withdrew a batch of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Thousands of vaccine doses end up in the garbage.
Vienna - Corona vaccinations of the batch number ABV 5300 have been stopped in Austria.
Other batches of AstraZeneca can be administered, Carinthia announced on Sunday.
Also from Lower Austria it was said on Sunday that the vaccination would continue.
"To be on the safe side, the remaining stocks of the affected vaccine batch are no longer issued and no longer vaccinated," said the Austrian Federal Office for Safety in Health Care (BASG).
According to the BASG, all necessary investigations “to be able to completely rule out a possible connection” are in full swing.
There is currently no evidence of a causal link between the vaccination and the death of a nurse, the ministry emphasizes.
Corona in Austria: the death of a nurse at the Zwettl state hospital is being investigated at high pressure
After the death of a nurse vaccinated with AstraZeneca in Zwettl (Lower Austria), many questions remain unanswered.
The 49-year-old had received the first dose of the AstraZeneca Corona vaccine twelve days earlier.
Then the woman “died as a result of severe coagulation disorders”.
A colleague (35) from the Landesklinikum Zwettl, "who has developed a pulmonary embolism, is on the mend", according to the BASG.
The ministry confirmed the two reports related to a vaccination from the same batch of the AstraZeneca vaccine on Sunday.
An autopsy at Vienna General Hospital should clarify the circumstances surrounding the death of the 49-year-old nurse.
The Vienna University Hospital AKH and the BASG have so far not established a connection between the death of the woman and the vaccine, reports the ORF.
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Covid-19 vaccine: AstraZeneca batch withdrawn in Austria
6,000 vaccination doses had to be withdrawn, according to ORF.
Around 37,000 cans of the batch have already been inoculated.
The precautionary issue of the batch ABV 5300 of the AstraZeneca vaccine has been in place since Friday evening.
On Sunday, the state of Carinthia announced that vaccination doses of this batch had been delivered.
"The Red Cross, the hospitals and the medical association - those supporting organizations that had been supplied with this batch - were informed immediately."
As
reported by
oe24.at
, the said batch comprised one million cans.
It was distributed all over Europe.
Austria received around 43,000 vaccine doses from it.
It is initially unclear where the remaining 6,000 cans are located.
According to media reports in Carinthia, the exhibition center in Klagenfurt was closed on Sunday.
The state capital only had vaccination doses from the affected batch available.
A hotline for those affected has been set up.
After the corona incident in Austria: Are vaccinations with AstraZeneca safe?
In Germany, the Standing Vaccination Commission (Stiko) recommends vaccinating all age groups with AstraZeneca.
The Stiko is based on new study data from Scotland and England, which "for the first time provided robust results on the good effectiveness of the vaccine in older age groups after just one vaccine dose".
Previously, the use of the vaccine in Germany was only recommended for people up to the age of 64 years.
The AstraZeneca corona vaccine will also be recommended for people over 65 in Austria and Denmark from March 5.
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A study from Scotland shows that AstraZeneca's vaccine can prevent severe disease in the elderly.
Even after the first dose with AstraZeneca, the risk of having to go to hospital with Covid-19 decreased significantly.
For those over 80, there was a decrease of 81 percent in the fourth week after vaccination.
The vaccine, called AZD1222, was developed by the British-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca together with the University of Oxford.
It has been in widespread use in the UK since January and, unlike the Biontech / Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, can be stored at normal refrigerator temperature.
It is also cheaper than the so-called mRNA vaccines from the other two manufacturers.
So far, three corona vaccines have been approved in the EU.
They come from the manufacturers Pfizer / Biontech, Moderna and AstraZeneca.
On March 11, the EMA is expected to recommend approval of the vaccine from the US manufacturer Johnson & Johnson.
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