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Austrian authorities have suspended inoculations with a batch of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine as a precaution whereas investigating the loss of life of 1 particular person and the sickness of one other after the photographs, a well being company mentioned on Sunday.

„The Federal Workplace for Security in Well being Care (BASG) has acquired two reviews in a temporal reference to a vaccination from the identical batch of the AstraZeneca vaccine within the district clinic of Zwettl“ in Decrease Austria province, it mentioned.

One 49-year-old lady died on account of extreme coagulation issues, whereas a 35-year-old lady developed a pulmonary embolism and is recovering, it mentioned. A pulmonary embolism is an acute lung illness attributable to a dislodged blood clot.

„Presently there isn’t a proof of a causal relationship with the vaccination,“ BASG mentioned.

Swiss newspaper Niederoesterreichische Nachrichten in addition to broadcaster ORF and the APA information company reported that the ladies had been each nurses who labored on the Zwettl clinic.

BASG mentioned blood clotting was not among the many recognized unwanted effects of the vaccine. It was pursuing its investigation vigorously to utterly rule out any doable hyperlink.

„As a precautionary measure, the remaining shares of the affected vaccine batch are not being issued or vaccinated,“ it added.

AstraZeneca had no rapid remark when contacted by Reuters.