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Other cases of blood clots have occurred in people who have been vaccinated in Norway
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In Norway, three young people developed blood clots after corona vaccinations with the active ingredient from the manufacturer AstraZeneca.
As the health authority, the Folkehelseinstitutt in Oslo, announced, it was not clear whether the vaccination was the trigger.
A connection will now be examined.
In addition, there were several cases of skin bleeding or bruises, said Sigurd Hortemo from the Folkehelseinstitutt.
This could be an indication of a low number of blood platelets (thrombocytes), which in turn could trigger internal bleeding.
People under the age of 50 who had been vaccinated with the AstraZeneca in the past two weeks were asked to watch out for side effects and to see a doctor if they bleed or bruise.
Several European countries, including Norway, had suspended their vaccinations with the AstraZeneca active ingredient this week due to reports of severe blood clots.
So far, however, it has not been clarified whether there is a connection between the vaccination and the blood clots.
AstraZeneca stresses that vaccine is safe
The Swedish-British manufacturer AstraZeneca emphasizes that its vaccine is safe.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) also stated that there was no noticeable accumulation of thromboses in connection with the vaccination.
"The benefits of the vaccine outweigh the risks, and the vaccine can still be given," it said.
The chief physician of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine at the Munich Clinic Schwabing, Clemens Wendtker, said that instead of a causality, a coincidence should be assumed, "more chance than cause."
The Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI) shares this assumption, "in Germany a total of eleven reports of different thromboembolic events in around 1.2 million vaccinations had been reported by March 11, 2021," it said.
So far, 121,820 doses of the British-Swedish vaccine against the coronavirus have been administered in Norway.
On Thursday, the health authority stopped the award after a person in Denmark died of a blood clot shortly after the vaccination.
So far, however, the Danes have not been able to establish a clear connection.
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