Berlin State Hospitals Pause AstraZeneca Shots for Women Staff Under 55

A health worker holds a syringe with the AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19 at a new vaccination center at the former Tempelhof airport in Berlin, Germany, on March 8, 2021. Tobias Schwarz/various sources/AFP via Getty Images

BERLIN—Berlin’s state hospital groups Charite and Vivantes have stopped giving women under the age of 55 shots of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, spokeswomen for the hospitals said on Tuesday.

The moves follow reports of rare but serious blood clots, bleeding, and in some cases death after vaccination, mainly in young women.