Deaths following vaccinations against Covid-19, but not related to vaccinations, will occur; such coincidences are inevitable, said Dr. Thomas Tsang of the Hong Kong vaccination team on Thursday, commenting on the case of the recently deceased 63-year-old.
An obese man suffering from high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease died in Hong Kong two days after taking a dose of a preparation from the Chinese company Sinovac. A panel of experts judged that his death was not related to vaccination.
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According to Tsang, the former head of the Hong Kong health center, the public should realize that with the high number of people vaccinated, some will die for reasons unrelated to vaccines.
“When more people are vaccinated, such coincidences will occur,” said the expert in an interview with the public Hong Kong station RTHK. According to the Hong Kong Free Press portal, by Tuesday, the first dose in the city received 13. people.
South Korea has reported five deaths as of Thursday among those who received AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines in recent days. Prime Minister Chung Sie Kiun announced an investigation into each of these cases and transparent reporting of the results.
Medical services are investigating the circumstances of the death of vaccinated people, but emphasize that in similar cases in the world, no connection between death and vaccination has been found, the Yonhap agency reported. By Thursday, in South Korea, over 154 had received the first dose. people.
This week, the Japanese Ministry of Health reported the death of one person vaccinated with Pfizer. A health worker over 60 died on Monday, three days after the injection, the NHK station said.
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According to local media, the woman did not suffer from comorbidities or allergies, and the cause of death was subarachnoid hemorrhage, a type of stroke. The representative of the Ministry of Health’s panel for vaccination, Tomohiro Morio, assessed on the basis of foreign data that it does not seem that such a hemorrhage could be related to the vaccine (PAP).
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