A 54-year
woman has died in Canada after receiving the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine, the
first fatality linked to the drug in the country, provincial authorities
announced Tuesday.
“I’m sad
to know that a healthy 54-year-old woman… died because she was vaccinated. It’s
hard to take,” Francois Legault, the premier of Quebec, told a news conference.
The
French-speaking province’s chief public health officer Horacio Arruda said
life-saving treatments did not work and the unidentified patient died of
cerebral thrombosis after being vaccinated.
But he cautioned that the death should not change the government’s recommendations to use the vaccine for those over 45 years old.
“We knew
about serious complications, there was one in 100,000 (doses administered). But
we must remember that, to date, we have had more than 400,000 people who have
been vaccinated with AstraZeneca,” Quebec health minister Christian Dube added.
As of last
Friday, just over 1.1 million AstraZeneca doses had been administered
nationwide.
Only four
other cases of blood clots associated with low platelets have been reported in
the country, and each patient recovered.
Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau received an AstraZeneca shot on Friday.
On
Tuesday, the Canadian leader said about 60 soldiers had been deployed to
overwhelmed hospitals in Nova Scotia to help care for critical patients.
The day
before about 30 army nurses and health technicians were sent to reinforce
hospital staff in Ontario, which is struggling with a new wave of infections
led by variants.
In Quebec,
which has suffered the most Covid deaths of any region in the country, the
latest data showed rates of infections were slowing, allowing the government to
announce it was pushing the start of a nightly curfew in Montreal from 8 pm to
9:30 pm (0130 GMT) starting next Monday.
AFP
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