Sri Lanka Reports 6 Cases of Blood Clots Among 925,000 AstraZeneca Vaccine Recipients, 3 Dead

Sri Lanka Reports 6 Cases of Blood Clots Among 925,000 AstraZeneca Vaccine Recipients, 3 Dead
A health official receives a dose of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India, at Infectious Diseases Hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Jan. 29, 2021. Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters
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NEW DELHI—Sri Lanka has found six cases of blood clots among recipients of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, three of whom have died, Health Minister Pavithra Waniarachchi told parliament on Wednesday.

Nearly a million people, 925,000 of the country’s 21 million population, have been given the first dose of the Indian-made vaccine in the country. No announcement of any halt to the vaccination program has been made.