German Vaccine Authority to Recommend Only Over-60s Get AstraZeneca Shot
March 30 2021 - 11:05AM
Dow Jones News
By Bojan Pancevski
Germany's vaccine authority will recommend the government ban
the AstraZeneca PLC Covid-19 vaccine for people younger than 60, an
official at the country's disease control agency said.
The move could set back Germany's already sputtering vaccine
program by several months. The final decision rests with the
federal government, but local authorities were already anticipating
a ban on Tuesday by withholding the shot for younger
recipients.
The decision to change the current recommendation to use the
vaccine for all age groups comes after authorities recorded 31
cases of a rare blood clotting in the brain among the over 2.6
million people who had received the shot by Monday.
Write to Bojan Pancevski at bojan.pancevski@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
March 30, 2021 10:50 ET (14:50 GMT)
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