23 deaths were recorded after vaccination against coronavirus in Norway – Respublika.lt

In Norway, 23 deaths were recorded after vaccination against the coronavirus. Photo by EPA-Elta

“Information has been received on 23 deaths after vaccination. 13 of them are currently being investigated,” the report says.

“These data may suggest that common symptoms caused by the vaccine, such as fever and nausea, may have been the cause of death in some elderly in poor health,” emphasized Sigurd Hortemo, chief physician of the agency.

Vaccination with a drug developed by the US company Pfizer and its partner in Germany, BioNTech, began in Norway on December 27 last year. Residents of nursing homes in Oslo were the first to be vaccinated in the country.

Earlier this year, three people who had been vaccinated were reported to have died in different cities, but authorities say their deaths may not be related to vaccination, an investigation is ongoing.

To date, more than 21,000 people have been vaccinated with the first dose of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine in Norway. people.

On Tuesday, the first shipment of the vaccine developed by the American company Moderna arrived in Norway: 4 thousand. dose.

WHO seeks more information

The World Health Organization (WHO) is in contact with the Norwegian authorities and is seeking more information about the death of 23 people vaccinated against the coronavirus in the country.

This was stated to journalists by the official WHO representative Tarikas Jašarevičius on Friday.

“WHO is in contact with the Norwegian government and the European Medical Agency for more information on deaths in Norway after vaccination with Covid-19,” he said. will report to the Strategic Advisory Group on Immunization “in the event that changes are made to the current recommendations.”

As soon as WHO and its partners have a “complete picture of these developments,” they will inform the public about the data received and “possible changes to the current recommendations,” Jašarevičius said. He recalled that Covid-19 is used mainly in the elderly, but that vaccination “will not reduce mortality from other causes.”

According to the WHO spokesman, “more than 30 million No cases of vaccination against the coronavirus that have caused death have been reported, he stressed.