A 54-year girl has died in Canada after receiving the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine, the primary fatality linked to the drug within the nation, provincial authorities introduced Tuesday.
“I’m unhappy to know {that a} wholesome 54-year-old girl… died as a result of she was vaccinated. It’s exhausting 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 well being minister Christian Dube added.
As of final Friday, simply over 1.1 million AstraZeneca doses had been administered nationwide.
Only 4 different circumstances of blood clots related to low platelets have been reported within the nation, and every affected person recovered.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau obtained an AstraZeneca shot on Friday.
On Tuesday, the Canadian chief mentioned about 60 troopers had been deployed to overwhelmed hospitals in Nova Scotia to assist take care of vital sufferers.
The day earlier than about 30 military nurses and well being technicians had been despatched to reinforce hospital workers in Ontario, which is battling a brand new wave of infections led by variants.
In Quebec, which has suffered probably the most Covid deaths of any area within the nation, the newest information confirmed charges of infections had been slowing, permitting the federal government to announce it was pushing the beginning of a nightly curfew in Montreal from 8 pm to 9:30 pm (0130 GMT) beginning subsequent Monday.
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