Telangana: Vaccinated healthcare worker dies; officials say death not due to Covid-19 vaccine
IANS / Updated: Jan 31, 2021, 18:49 IST
Telangana third case of its kind a few days after taking Covid-19 vaccine, though
health authorities maintained the fatality was not due to vaccination.
The 55-year-old woman from Mancherial district was given the vaccine dose at the
primary health centre in Kasipet on January 19, but complained of shortness of breath and giddiness only on January 29, officials said on Sunday.
According to Director of Public Health Dr G Srinivas Rao, she was admitted to Medilife Hospital at Mancherial. She was shifted to Nizam s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIM) Hyderabad on January 30, where she succumbed at about 11 pm.
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Hyderabad, Jan 31 (IANS): A healthcare worker has died in Telangana third case of its kind a few days after taking Covid-19 vaccine, though health authorities maintained the fatality was not due to vaccination.
The 55-year-old woman from Mancherial district was given the vaccine dose at the primary health centre in Kasipet on January 19, but complained of shortness of breath and giddiness only on January 29, officials said on Sunday.
According to Director of Public Health Dr G Srinivas Rao, she was admitted to Medilife Hospital at Mancherial. She was shifted to Nizam s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIM) Hyderabad on January 30, where she succumbed at about 11 pm.
Updated Jan 22, 2021 | 19:35 IST
A Haryana government official claimed that there was no evidence yet to prove that her death was linked to the vaccination. Representational Image. | Photo Credit: AP
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India had launched the first phase of the world’s biggest inoculation drive on January 16 to provide vaccination to more than three crore healthcare workers and frontline Covid-19 warriors
Earlier, the states of Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Telangana have reported multiple deaths of healthcare workers after they were administered the Covid-19 vaccines
Gurugram: After similar cases in Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Telangana, another health worker has died after taking the first shot of the Covid-19 vaccine, this time in Haryana’s Gurugram.
Ambulance driver died of heart attack, says preliminary PME
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‘It will take at least two weeks to know what triggered MI’
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‘It will take at least two weeks to know what triggered MI’
The 42-year-old ambulance driver, G. Vital Rao, who died within 24 hours of getting the COVID-19 vaccine, suffered a Myocardial Infarction (MI), also known as heart attack, according to the preliminary Post-Mortem Examination (PME) report, said Health officials.
However, it would take at least two weeks to know what triggered the heart attack and if vaccine was the cause of death. He did not suffer from any co-morbidities like diabetes or hypertension.