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Local media such as La Repubblica daily reported on the 14th (local time) that the health authorities in Piedmont Province in northern Italy temporarily suspended vaccination of AstraZeneca vaccine at a specific manufacturing unit.
The decision came shortly after reports of a 58-year-old teacher who had been vaccinated with AstraZeneca had died the morning of the day before.
The cause of the teacher’s death was not specifically identified.
The newspaper reported that the authorities temporarily suspended the use of the vaccine, the serial number’ABV5811′, which the deceased teacher inoculated.
In a statement, state health official Luigi Genesio Icardi said in a statement that prophylaxis was extremely cautious while trying to determine the causal relationship between vaccination and death. did.
Earlier, the Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA) temporarily suspended the vaccination at the manufacturing unit on the 11th in connection with the deaths of a 43-year-old naval agent and a 50-year-old police officer who vaccinated the AstraZeneca vaccine with serial number’ABV2856′ in Sicily.
The official position of the Italian authorities is that this is also a preventive measure, and that a causal relationship with vaccine side effects has not yet been confirmed.
In Europe, reports of blood clots formed after vaccination with AstraZeneca were followed, and more than a dozen countries have stopped vaccinating specific manufacturing units or whole vaccinations as a precautionary measure.
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