Woman who died after vaccine, Toti: "There is no correlation, case reported to AIFA"

• Teacher died in Palermo of thrombosis.

  She was vaccinated with AstraZeneca 10 days ago

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04 April 2021 The president of the Liguria Region, Giovanni Toti, regarding possible correlations between the death of a young woman at San Martino and the intake of the AstraZeneca vaccine, in a press conference on Facebook specified: "There are no direct correlations between the death of the 32-year-old woman who died after a dose of AstraZeneca on March 22. This is what the doctors told us after an initial examination and in any case this tragedy has just happened and therefore there will be analyzes of the case. Every week Aifa watches over. in any case on vaccines and adverse reactions and if these occur with an above average incidence ".

The governor further specified: "We have communicated to the Ministry and Aifa the case of a 32-year-old girl who arrived at San Martino in serious condition, a teacher vaccinated on March 22 and arrived at the emergency room with a severe cerebral hemorrhage from thrombosis. The control and verification procedures have started: it is difficult to establish a connection now, it may be chance, predisposition or other. All suspicious events are reported to Aifa, we will then see in the light of the clinical analyzes on which the specialists at San Martino are already working ".

"As the Deputy Minister also said, there is no established correlation between what happened to that poor girl and the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine. We are very cautious, we reported everything that happened to the pharmacovigilance of the Italian Medicines Agency. and they will have to give us an answer. AstraZeneca you know that it is a very controlled vaccine on which there has also been a wide debate on the ranges of use. Vaccination is helping to save many thousands of people from death from Covid so we must always keep present what is the result you want to obtain ".

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. Furthermore, during the press conference he specified: "We are at almost 60 thousand vaccines a week as we had promised. From Thursday of this week the Genoese hub will remain open until 2 am and in the third week of April the Sarzana hub will open: with this we will go up to 70-80 thousand doses per week ".

In conclusion, he then said: "Tomorrow, Easter Monday, traditional trips will not be possible. We are all tired but the numbers speak for themselves: we must still secure at least the seventies. By April we will take a decisive step forward and then, in the following months, we will bring this region back to life as usual ".

"Starting from Tuesday Genoa, Tigullio and La Spezia will return to being orange because they are the result of the new classification model, while in the West it is necessary to reduce the contagion a little further. We hope that the numbers will allow us to give an answer to everyone. those who want to leave ".