The Piedmont region announced today that it has resumed vaccinations with AstraZeneca vaccine, after blocking a batch for precautionary reasons, after the death of a teacher one day after his vaccination.
“The AstraZeneca vaccine was repeated, after a few hours of discontinuation for precautionary reasons, to identify and separate the batch from which the dose was given to the deceased teacher,” a statement from the Piedmont region posted on the website of.
All other batches can now be used, except batch ABV5811, while a meeting of the health authorities is convened.
The initial discontinuation of the AstraZeneca vaccine was “a measure of extreme caution, pending confirmation of a causal link between vaccination and death,” explained the Piedmontese district health adviser.
THE Italy decided on Thursday to preemptively ban the use of another batch of AstraZeneca / Oxford vaccine due to concerns about the appearance of blood clots.
Italian Ministry of Health inspectors are in Sicily to investigate the death of a 43-year-old soldier after receiving the vaccine.
However, the president of the Italian drug agency, Giorgio Palo, assured today that the AstraZeneca vaccine poses “no danger”.

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