BERLIN—Germany’s vaccine authority will recommend the government ban AstraZeneca PLC’s Covid-19 vaccine for people younger than 60 following fresh blood-clotting incidents among recipients, an official at the country’s disease-control agency said Tuesday—potentially presenting the country’s sputtering vaccine rollout with fresh delays.
The final decision on changing who may receive the AstraZeneca vaccine in Germany rests with the federal government, but local authorities from Berlin to Munich and individual hospitals elsewhere were already anticipating a partial ban on Tuesday by withholding the shot for younger recipients.
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