TGA says deaths of two NSW men unlikely linked to AstraZeneca vaccine

The head of Australia's drugs regulator urges caution about linking blood clot deaths to Covid-19 vaccines

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The head of Australia's drug regulator says two recent deaths that occurred after receiving the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine are unlikely to be linked to the jab.

On Thursday the Northern Daily Leader reported that a man in the northern NSW city of Tamworth had died in hospital on 21 April from blood clots in his lungs, which developed after he received the vaccine. And the ABC reported that a man in his 70s had died in Sydney after receiving the vaccine, but did not name the cause of the man's death.