South Korean authorities investigates 7 deaths that adopted Covid-19 vaccination with AstraZeneca’s jab

South Korea completed its first week of rolling out long-awaited Covid-19 inoculations within the nation with 1000’s of suspected hostile reactions to AstraZeneca’s vaccine, seven of which resulted in deaths.

The quantity who died after the jab rose by 4 previously two days, in keeping with a report on Saturday by South Korea’s Illness Management and Prevention Company (KDCA), which is investigating the incidents. Vaccines have been administered to greater than 296,000 individuals, or about zero.6 p.c of the nation’s inhabitants, throughout the first week of the rollout.

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South Korea has reported greater than 2,800 hostile reactions from Covid-19 vaccines, however solely 24 of these circumstances have been deemed extreme, together with the seven that resulted in demise. All 24 extreme circumstances concerned individuals who acquired the AstraZeneca jab, which was the primary vaccine accredited to be used in South Korea.

The overwhelming majority of the doses which were administered to this point are the AstraZeneca vaccine. Seoul additionally has a contract to obtain hundreds of thousands of doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, however large-scale shipments aren’t scheduled to start till subsequent month. About 5,000 Pfizer-BioNTech jabs have been given in South Korea to this point, with none reported to have triggered a extreme hostile response.

South Korea usually has a few of the highest vaccination charges on the earth, and it boasts a few of the only Covid-mitigation efforts. However the nation has been sluggish to start out administering vaccines, reportedly as a result of officers believed their Covid-19 successes gave them the posh of specializing in security over pace.

South Korea has reported greater than 92,000 Covid-19 circumstances amongst its 52 million inhabitants, and just one,632 deaths as of Saturday. By comparability, the UK, which has a inhabitants of about 67 million, has had greater than four.2 million circumstances and 124,000 deaths.

However South Korea suffered a vaccine scare final fall, when at the very least 83 individuals died shortly after taking seasonal flu photographs. The KDCA stated it discovered no proof that any of these deaths have been brought on by the photographs. In contrast to the intense allergic reactions allegedly linked to the Covid-19 vaccine, there have been no experiences of anaphylactic shock ensuing from the flu jabs.

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Most people who died after taking the seasonal flu photographs have been aged and had underlying medical situations. Not less than the primary few deaths following the Covid-19 vaccine concerned individuals who have been aged, had underlying medical situations or each.

“We’re actually speaking about people who find themselves closely affected by very extreme underlying illnesses . . .,” Dr. David Kwak of Soonchunhyang College Hospital stated on Thursday in an Arirang Information interview. “Now we have to think about the severity of the underlying situations they’d earlier than receiving the vaccination.”

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