Australia had passed 130,000 doses of AstraZeneca being administered by late March. The first deaths linked to AstraZeneca anywhere weren't reported until April. The third death in Australia linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine was in early July. Well over 5 million doses of AstraZeneca had been administered by then.
Sweden and Denmark, as well as Germany and France temporarily suspended AZ in March due to cases of clotting and deaths continuing since it's introduction in Dec 2020. All except Sweden restarted using it after an analyses of the numbers showed the vaccine safe and only very low cases of this reaction. In late 2020 prior to introduction of AZ there was questions regarding it's testing and efficacy results in regard to an number of factors that also led to it being dragged through the mud by the press. All those questions have been answered in subsequent testing and analyses.