Telangana healthcare worker dies on 11th day after vax shot
Sun, Jan 31 2021 09:23:19 PM
Hyderabad, Jan 31 (IANS): A healthcare worker has died in Telangana -- third case of its kind -- a few days after taking Covid-19 vaccine, though health authorities maintained the fatality was not due to vaccination.
The 55-year-old woman from Mancherial district was given the vaccine dose at the primary health centre in Kasipet on January 19, but complained of shortness of breath and giddiness only on January 29, officials said on Sunday.
According to Director of Public Health Dr G Srinivas Rao, she was admitted to Medilife Hospital at Mancherial. She was shifted to Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences (NIM) Hyderabad on January 30, where she succumbed at about 11 pm.