Rare Covid vaccine blood clot linked to 41 deaths with young 'hit worst' The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said

Younger adults are particularly affected by the rare blood clotting disorder linked to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, the UK's medicines regulator has said.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said there were 209 cases in the UK of the rare combination of blood clots with low platelet counts following being vaccinated the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab, with 41 deaths, up to April 21.

This is up from 168 cases and 32 deaths the previous week.

New data, published by the MHRA for the first time on Thursday, also gives breakdown of the jab's side affects by age.

It shows 23 cases in people aged 18 to 29, 27 in those in their thirties, 30 in people in their forties, 59 in people in their fifties and 57 in those aged 60 and above, with the age not known in the remaining cases.

Around a quarter of the rare blood clots were in people aged under 40, and two-thirds in those under 60, the data shows.

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