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There are 11,907 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine from batch ABV2856 expiring 05/2021, whose use has been suspended today by Aifa as a precaution, that have been used to date in Emilia-Romagna, out of a total of 60,691 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine administered. in the region. To date, specifies the Regional Department of Health, no abnormal reactions have been observed in Emilia-Romagna. Aifa also clarified that “at the moment a causal link has not been established between the administration of the vaccine and these events.”
The operations of the Carabinieri de Nas de Bologna will last all night so as not to hinder the vaccination of doses not prohibited on Friday morning. However, a delivery would have been made to Ausl Romagna, which in turn would have been distributed internally in the three provinces served by the Romagna health authority.
The Regional Department of Health Policies sent an immediate communication to the General and Health Directorates of the Health and Hospital Trusts, Irccs, Primary Care Departments and Pharmaceutical Departments of Companies, with a request for disclosure to general practitioners, after the decision adopted by the Italian Medicines Agency. . Therefore, also in Emilia-Romagna, following the urgent measure adopted today by the Italian Medicines Agency following the notification of some ‘serious adverse events’, a ban on the use of the Covid-19 AstraZeneca “ABV2856 vaccine batch with expiration 05/2021 “.
It is requested to check and communicate the availability of packages of this lot and, where appropriate, put them aside, keep them in the refrigerator and deliver them with the appropriate wording ‘Do not use’, pending new provisions and checks by Aifa. There would have been three cases of thrombosis after the administration of the AstraZeneca vaccine, in Sicily, to induce AIFA to impose a precautionary stop for the batch in question. Denmark, Austria, Lithuania, Estonia and Luxembourg have suspended the use of the vaccine.
