No, that's completely wrong. The person who died was in the control group: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-54634518

They don't release more details officially due to patient confidentiality, but the unofficial word was that a young doctor treating COVID patients died of COVID during the trial, but was in the control group and did not receive the vaccine. It is very sad whenever a doctor dies trying to save others, but especially because they may still be alive if they had been randomized to the vaccination group (of course we don't know that for sure though, since the vaccine may still prove to be effective or ineffective).

Ah, right. Didn't know that! thanks!

What has been reported in the local media, is that the doctor who died did not get the vaccine. He was one of the test subjects, but half of the test subjects receive a placebo instead of the vaccine (the whole point of the experiment is to see how the vaccine compares with a placebo); he was in the group that received the placebo.

A person who got the vaccine died; "vaccine killed a test subject" is quite misleading.

Right, further investigation is needed, but how about this one: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/17/health/astrazeneca-vaccin...

Unfortunately that's how most newspapers released the news, so I'm not surprised he's confused

Maybe yes, but this is the second time there is trouble with this specific vaccine.