in your language.Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the highest priority in our response has been to protect the safety of the Australian population.It is for this reason, Australia’s response has always been based on expert medical advice.The Australian Government received important advice this evening from Australia’s expert vaccine advisory body, the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI).ATAGI has very carefully considered the latest vaccination findings out of Europe and the UK – which follow extremely rare instances of people, having taken the AstraZeneca vaccine, developing a very specific syndrome involving blood clots with low platelet counts.The syndrome is called “thrombosis with thrombocytopenia”.ATAGI has.