A health worker in Norway has died of a brain haemorrhage after being vaccinated with the AstraZeneca jab.
Health authorities confirmed the news on Monday but no direct link to the jab has been established yet.
A few days ago, there was a similar fatality in the country, which had suspended the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine as a precaution last Thursday.
Three health care workers, under 50, had been hospitalised with blood clots, bleeding and abnormally low levels of platelets in the blood, Norway’s health authorities said on Saturday.
The Anglo-Swedish pharma group made the first dose of the vaccine that was received by all the three workers.
However, health authorities reported that one of them, a woman who was seen to be of good health, died on Sunday after a brain haemorrhage.
She had been hospitalised on Thursday, about a week after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine.
An official from the Norwegian Medicines Agency, Steinar Madsen stated, “We can neither confirm nor exclude that it has something to do with the vaccine."
It was reported that the two other health workers were in stable condition.
10 days after receiving the same vaccine, another health worker in her 30s died on Friday in Norway.
Austria and Denmark are among other countries in Europe that have recorded deaths in the same context.
Currently, investigations on deaths to see if there is a link to the vaccine are being carried out by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
The World Health Organization said on Friday that there was “no indication to not use” the vaccine, while the manufacturer itself insisted it was safe.
Norwegian medical authorities reported that before the vaccine was suspended in Norway, around 130,000 people in the country had received it.
Denmark, Iceland, Bulgaria, Ireland, the Netherlands, France, Italy and Germany are among other countries that have also suspended the AstraZeneca vaccine.
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