Moradabad/Lucknow, January 18
A 46-year-old health worker died in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad district a day after receiving the coronavirus vaccination, with the autopsy report attributing the death to “cardio-pulmonary disease”, officials said on Monday.
The family of Mahipal, who was working as ward boy in state-run Deen Dayal Upadhaya Hospital, said he was not suffering from any ailment other than fever and cough, and blamed his death on vaccination.
But the Uttar Pradesh government said the man died due to septicemic shock and cardiac arrest and the death was not related to the COVID-19 vaccination.
“An adverse event following immunisation (AEFI) committee probed the death of the man in Moradabad. The cause of death was septicemic shock and cardiac arrest and it has nothing to do with the vaccination,” the state’s Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Amit Mohan Prasad told reporters in Lucknow.