Seoul National University Hospital’s Corona 19 Vaccination was held at Seoul National University Hospital in Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul on the morning of the 4th. Medical staff are getting the AstraZeneca vaccine. Photo co-recruitment group
Reports of death after being vaccinated against the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) increased to 7 cases. For the first time among adverse reactions, convulsions were also reported.
On the 5th, the Central Defense Response Headquarters (Bang Dae-bon) announced that 7 cases of death have been reported since the corona 19 vaccination as of 2 p.m. on the same day and are currently under investigation. Epidemiological investigations and damage investigation groups will be held to evaluate causality.
All of the new cases of death were patients with underlying diseases who were admitted to nursing hospitals. A man in his 40s died around 1 p.m. on the 4th, 46 hours after getting AstraZeneca (AZ) vaccine around 3 p.m. on the 2nd. Mr. B, a man in his 60s, also vaccinated AZ at 3 pm on the 2nd and died 54 hours later at 8:30 pm on the 4th. However, as reports are received after 0:00 on the 5th, Mr. B will not be reflected in the statistics as of this day, and will be reflected in the statistics at 0:00 on the 6th.
C, a woman in her 40s who showed a suspicious case of convulsions after AZ vaccination, was also admitted to a nursing hospital and had an underlying disease. About 11 am on the 3rd, after getting the vaccine, half a day later, he showed fever symptoms. After that, convulsions appeared and he was transferred to a general hospital for treatment.
According to Bang Dae-bon, a total of 22,5853 people completed the first vaccination of the vaccine as of 0 o’clock on the 5th. As the number of inoculations increased, 860 cases reported as suspected of adverse reactions were added to a total of 1578 cases.
Reporter Lee Ga-young [email protected]
