https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/health-wellbeing/one-person-in-intensive-care-as-...One person in intensive care
as eight new blood clot cases linked
to AstraZeneca vaccine
Thursday, 3 June 2021 7:19 pm AEST
Eight additional cases of blood clots have been “likely” linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine in Australia.
One of the newly confirmed cases is “critically unwell” and is in intensive care.
The additional figures bring the number of confirmed and probable cases of blood clots with low blood platelets in the nation to 41.
The Therapeutic Goods Administration released a statement with the new figures on Thursday.
It said the cases had been assessed as “thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS) likely to be linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine”.
“When assessed using the United Kingdom (UK) case definition, four cases are confirmed and four are deemed probable TTS,” the TGA said in a statement.
“This brings the total number of confirmed and probable TTS cases in Australia to 41.”
Lucy Quaggin
7NEWS
Published: 03/06/2021