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On Tuesday morning, municipal chief doctor Styrk Fjærtoft Vik in Kristiansand municipality claims that nine residents of the Grimtunet care center in Kristiansand have been diagnosed with covid-19 after receiving the corona vaccine. The case was first reported by NRK.
– The nine residents of the Grimtunet housing association have received two doses of the vaccine, but have been exposed to the infection very close to the time the second dose was established. That is, they did not have a full vaccination effect at the time they were exposed to the infection, the municipal chief tells Dagbladet and continues:
– The course of the disease in the nine infected so far is remarkably peaceful, indicating that they have had a good and important effect from the vaccination they have received.
Fjærtoft Vik informs Dagbladet that the outbreak has been reported to the National Institute of Public Health, as municipalities do with all outbreaks.
Under investigation
About two weeks ago, several residents of the Gerda nursing home farm in Gothenburg, Sweden, were diagnosed with Covid-19 even though they had received their second dose of the corona vaccine. At the time, Steinar Madsen, medical director of the Norwegian Medicines Agency, told Dagbladet that this was also being investigated in Norway.
– The Norwegian Institute of Public Health is investigating the effect of the vaccine by linking patient records and the SYSVAK vaccination record. It will be exciting to see the results of these investigations, Madsen told Dagbladet.
Cheer up
He also encouraged Norwegian doctors to report similar cases to the Norwegian Medicines Agency.
– We are very interested in finding out how effective corona vaccines are in older people and we ask Norwegian doctors to send us a message if they discover cases where the vaccine may have failed, Madsen said and continued:
– It is important for Norwegian doctors to report, regardless of age group, so that we can investigate it further. Because if a drug does not have the effect it is supposed to have, it is also considered a side effect.
