Boris Johnson during a visit to a vaccination centre at Jesus House for All The Nations, a church in Brent, North London
(Picture: PA)Authorities in Austria have suspended inoculations of a batch of the AstraZenecacoronavirus vaccine while they investigate the death of one person after receiving a jab.
The Federal Office for Safety in Health Care (BASG) said it received reports that a 49-year-old woman died as a result of severe coagulation disorder after receiving the jab.
A 35-year-old woman also developed a pulmonary embolism after the vaccine and is recovering. Both women received jabs of the Oxford vaccine from the same batch.
The health agency added that there is “no evidence of a casual relationship with the vaccination” but the remaining stocks of the affected vaccine batch are no longer being used as a “precautionary measure”.
It comes as UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned the risk of keeping classrooms locked outweighs the risk of a school-led spike in coronavirus cases. He told reporters on Sunday: “You ask about the risk (of schools returning) – I think the risk is actually in not going back to school tomorrow given all the suffering, all the loss of learning we have seen.”
