Risk of dying following vaccination negligible: Health Ministry

A beneficiary receives a dose of Covid-19 vaccine during a special vaccination camp, at Company Bagh in Jammu, on Tuesday. Pic/PTI

The health ministry on Tuesday termed as "incomplete" and of "limited understanding" media reports which stated that 488 deaths between January 16 and June 7 following vaccination were linked to post-Covid complications, and highlighted that the vaccination coverage during this period was 23.5 crore.

The number of deaths reported following Covid-19 vaccination in the country is only 0.0002 per cent of the 23.5 crore doses administered, and this is within the expected death rates in a population, it said. In a population, deaths occur at a certain rate. The crude death rate in 2017, according to SRS data, was 6.3 per 1,000 people annually, the ministry said.

It is also important and pertinent to note that the mortality rate for those testing positive for Covid-19 is more than one per cent and vaccination can prevent these deaths, it said.

"Therefore, the risk of dying following vaccination is negligible as compared to the known risk of dying due to Covid-19," the ministry stated. The ministry also referred to some media reports suggesting an increase in the cases of severe adverse events following immunisation (AEFI) that have also resulted in "succumbing of patients" post-vaccination.

India records 60K fresh cases

Meanwhile, India's Covid-19 caseload continued to fall with the country recording 60,461 new cases, lowest since March 29 and 2,726 fatalities due to the virus in the last 24 hours, according to data released by the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry on Tuesday.

India sees first death post inoculation

A government panel confirmed the first death due to anaphylaxis after vaccination. The casualty assessment of 31 reported Serious Adverse Events Following Immunisation cases following Covid-19 vaccination was carried out by the panel.

61 arrested from pool party in Noida

At least 61 men and women were arrested from a farmhouse in Noida where they were having a pool party in complete violation of the lockdown norms enforced in the city to contain the spread of the Coronavirus.

‘All above 18 yrs can walk in for the jab'

Anyone over the age of 18 can walk in to the nearest vaccination centre to get registered on the CoWIN digital platform and take the jab against Covid-19, the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday. It is not mandatory to pre-register online or book a slot to get the vaccine, the government said.

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2,95,70,881
Total no. of Coronavirus cases in India so far

3,77,031
Total no. of deaths due to the virus in India so far

9,13,378
Total no. of active cases in India

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