Australia recommends not using AstraZeneca vaccine until age 60

The Australian government has changed recommendations for covid-19 vaccines with a drug from ASTRAZENECA, HEALTH Minister Greg Hunt said, according to the Canberra Times. Now this vaccine is recommended only for citizens over 60 years of age.

According to him, this was advised by the Australian Immunization Technical Group, which advises the country's Ministry of Health on the use of vaccines.

Experts have raised the age limit for those recommended to get AstraZeneca's vaccine from 50 to 60 after a 52-year-old New South Wales woman died of complications from the vaccine in early June. This is the second confirmed death in the country, the minister said. Death was due to blood clots after the vaccine was administered, the government said in a statement.

Following this decision, Australia will “immediately” allow people aged 40 to 59 to be vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine, The West Australian quoted Hunt as saying. it was previously planned that this age group would be vaccinated with the AstraZeneca vaccine.