Officials said since the beginning of the vaccination drive on January 16, Odisha has reported 110 AFEI, 22 of which were termed serious and the remaining 88 mild to moderate (Representative image)
Bhubaneswar: A 57-year-old man from Puri district, who had taken the first dose of Covishield on Sunday afternoon, died later that night after reporting adverse event following immunization (AEFI). This has taken the number of such deaths to six in the state.
Director family welfare (DFW) Bijay Kumar Panigrahi said the autopsy report of the deceased is still awaited. “All the six deaths are being reviewed to find out if any of them had a correlation with the vaccine. All the six had co-morbid medical conditions,” he added.