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Ukraine investigates cause of man's death after COVID shot by Reuters Share: (Adds Pfizer statement) KYIV, July 3 (Reuters - Ukraine's health ministry is investigating why a 47-year-old man died four hours after he received a shot of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, the ministry said late on Friday. It said the death may have no connection to the shot and that another five people who were vaccinated from the same vial as the man who died were in a satisfactory condition. The ministry said that under Ukrainian law and international standards for the organisation of pharmacovigilance f...

(Adds Pfizer not immediately available for comment) KYIV, July 3 (Reuters - Ukraine's health ministry is investigating why a 47-year old man died just four hours after he received a shot of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, the ministry said late on Friday. The ministry said that there may be no connection between the two and that another five people who were vaccinated from the same vial as the man who died are in a satisfactory condition. It said that under Ukrainian law and international standards for the organisation of pharmacovigilance for adverse events after immunisation, every death th...

HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/ISRAEL-PFIZER (UPDATE 1, PIX):UPDATE 1-Israel sees probable link between Pfizer vaccine and myocarditis cases

Israel health officials have found a probable link between Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE’s coronavirus vaccine and dozens of cases of heart inflammation in young men following the second dose of the vaccine, the Health Ministry said late Tuesday.

UPDATE 1-India and Pfizer hit impasse over vaccine indemnity demand -sources Reuters 2 hrs ago (Adds Pfizer declined to comment, paragraph 5) By Neha Arora and Carl O'Donnell NEW DELHI/NEW YORK, May 21 (Reuters) - Pfizer and the Indian government are at loggerheads over a demand by the U.S. drugmaker for legal protection from any claims linked to the use of its COVID-19 vaccine in one of the world's biggest markets, two sources told Reuters. India has not given any manufacturer of a COVID-19 vaccine indemnity against the costs of compensation for any severe side effects, which is a conditio...