(Adds investigation, quote)
MOSCOW, March 19 (Reuters) - Georgia's health ministry said
after the death of a 27-year-old nurse that coronavirus
vaccinations with the AstraZeneca shot would continue
only in full-fledged medical centres, the TASS news agency
reported on Friday.
The Interior Ministry also said it had opened an
investigation after the nurse who had the AstraZeneca vaccine
and suffered an anaphylactic shock died on Friday, the RIA news
agency reported.
Amiran Gamkrelidze, director of Georgia's National Centre
for Disease Control, had described the nurse's condition as
serious on Thursday, Interfax reported.
"Our 27-year-old colleague suffered anaphylactic shock after
vaccination with the AstraZeneca vaccine and was transported to
an intensive care unit in Tbilisi," Gamkrelidze was quoted as
saying.
(Reporting by Polina Ivanova; writing by Tom Balmforth; editing
by John Stonestreet)