The Piedmont region, in northwestern Italy, decided on Sunday March 14 to temporarily suspend the administration of the AstraZeneca vaccine, after the death of a teacher vaccinated the day before, announced the regional health authority.
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This is an extreme precautionary measure, while waiting to verify whether there is a causal link between the vaccination and the death
", explained the health adviser of the Piedmont region, Luigi Genesio Icardi. , in a press release.
The teacher, whose age is not specified, died Sunday in Biella, a town north of Turin.
Italy had decided last Thursday to ban as a precaution the use of a batch of anti-Covid vaccines from AstraZeneca / Oxford because of fears related to the formation of blood clots.
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Inspectors from the Italian Ministry of Health went to Sicily on Sunday to investigate the death of a 43-year-old soldier who died on March 9 in the southern island of Italy after an injection of a dose of AstraZeneca vaccine.
An autopsy of the body was already carried out on Saturday at the hospital in Catania, in the east of the island.
This measure comes as Denmark, Iceland and Norway recently decided to suspend the use of the serum for fourteen days.
Other countries, such as Italy, Austria, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Luxembourg had already, a few days earlier, stopped administering vaccines from certain batches.
As for Ireland, it has just recommended suspension.
