Italy too, on Monday suspended the use of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, making it the latest European country to put the product on hold following reports of recipients falling ill.The Italian medicines authority AIFA said it was taking the decision as a "precautionary and temporary measure" pending rulings by the European Medicines Agency.The announcements came shortly after Germany took the same step, and followed the seizure of hundreds of thousands of doses of the vaccine by Italian prosecutors in the northern region of Piedmont.This suspension of the use of AstraZeneca Plc’s Covid-19 vaccine is amid a growing health scare that’s creating yet another delay for the European Union’s inoculation campaign.The country cited the.