A medical worker (left) is getting the vaccine in Tokyo on the 17th of last month when Japan started vaccinating against the new coronavirus infection. EPA Yonhap News
A woman in her 60s in Japan died after being vaccinated against the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), Kyodo News reported on the 2nd. However, he added that it is currently unknown whether the cause of death was due to the vaccine.
According to Kyodo News, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare announced that a woman in her 60s who vaccinated the US Pfizer had died. The woman, who was vaccinated on the 26th of last month, had no underlying or allergic disease.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare said that subarachnoid hemorrhage appears to be the cause of death. At this point, it is not possible to evaluate whether it is a side effect of vaccination, so it is planning to examine the causal relationship. Subarachnoid hemorrhage is a bleeding that occurs in the space under the arachnoid membrane of the brain.
Morio Tomohiro (森尾友宏), vice chairman of the side effects review of the Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Welfare Vaccine Subcommittee said, “Even overseas vaccination cases do not seem to be related to subarachnoid hemorrhage and the Corona 19 vaccine.”
In Japan, about 40,000 medical workers have received applications and have been vaccinated with Pfizer’s vaccine since the 17th of last month. By day 1, a total of 31,785 people received the first vaccination.
In Japan, mild hives and chills have been reported as side effects of vaccination.
Pfizer’s vaccine killed a nurse in their 40s who received it in Portugal in early January, and a number of elderly people who received the vaccine in Norway were killed.
However, most of them are elderly or with underlying diseases, and they have concluded that the correlation with the vaccine is weak, but have been evaluated as generally safe.
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