Italy halts AstraZeneca vaccine for under 60s

The Italian government said on Friday it was restricting the use of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to people over the age of 60, after a teenager who had received the shot died from a rare form of blood clotting.

The Italian government said on Friday it was restricting the use of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to people over the age of 60, after a teenager who had received the shot died from a rare form of blood clotting. Camilla Canepa died on Thursday aged 18 after being given the vaccine on May 25, triggering a media and political outcry over the Anglo-Swedish company's shot being used for adults of all ages despite previously-raised medical concerns. "AstraZeneca will only be used for people over 60," the country's special Covid-19 commissioner Francesco Figliuolo told reporters.