The Health Products Regulatory Authority in Ireland has said it is closely monitoring an Austrian investigation into reports of adverse events following vaccinations from one batch of AstraZeneca vaccine.
Austrian authorities are investigating the death of one person and illness in a second person after receiving the vaccine and have have suspended inoculations from a specific batch of AstraZeneca as a precaution. "The Federal Office for Safety in Health Care (BASG) has received two reports in a temporal connection with a vaccination from the same batch of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the district clinic of Zwettl," in Lower Austria province, it said.