ROME, March 15 (Reuters) - Prosecutors in the northern
Italian region of Piedmont said on Monday they had seized a
batch of 393,600 shots of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine
following the death of a man hours after he had received a jab.
On Sunday Piedmont's regional government suspended use of
the batch after Sandro Tognatti, a 57-year-old music teacher,
fell ill and died in circumstances that have not yet been
clarified.
Ireland, Denmark, Norway and Iceland have suspended use of
the AstraZeneca vaccine following blot-clotting issues, some of
them fatal, in people who had used it.
(Reporting by Emilio Parodi, writing by Gavin Jones, editing by
Crispian Balmer)