BERLIN, March 30 (Reuters) - Germany's vaccine regulator
said on Tuesday it has recorded 31 cases of a rare blood clot in
the brain, nine of which resulted in deaths, after people
received a COVID-19 vaccine from AstraZeneca.
The Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI) said it has now registered
31 cases of clots in the cerebral veins - known as sinus vein
thrombosis, or CSVT - and that in 19 of these there was a
deficiency of blood platelets or thrombocytepenia.
In nine cases, the affected people died. With the exception
of two cases, all reports concerned women between the ages of 20
and 63. The two men were 36 and 57 years old.
(Reporting by Patricia Weiss
Writing by Caroline Copley
Editing by Thomas Escritt)