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Written by: Yuan Shu, Zheng Cuibi
2021-03-02 22:19
The last update date: 2021-03-02 22:20
The Hong Kong Vaccination Program will provide five priority groups of citizens with the KXV vaccine starting from last Friday (February 26), including those over 60 years of age.
Six people have been sent to hospital for vaccinations in the first few days. The Department of Health announced tonight (March 2) that a 63-year-old man was vaccinated on the first day two days after being vaccinated on this Sunday (February 28). ) He was admitted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital and died on the same day.
The Department of Health said tonight that it received a report of a suspected and serious abnormal event after being vaccinated with the new crown vaccination according to the Hospital Authority, stating that the 63-year-old man suffered from acute breathing difficulties after vaccination and went to Elizabeth for treatment on his own. He died, and according to the established mechanism, the case has been handed over to the new crown vaccine clinical event evaluation expert committee for causality assessment as soon as possible.
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The Department of Health received a report from the Hospital Authority this evening on a suspected and serious abnormal event after immunization with the new crown vaccine.
The case involved a 63-year-old man who was vaccinated against COVID-19 at the Community Vaccination Center of Kwun Chung Stadium in Jordan on February 26.
He later developed acute breathing difficulties on February 28 and went to Queen Elizabeth Hospital for treatment on his own. He was certified dead on the same day.
After receiving the report, the Department of Health has immediately contacted the Hospital Authority and is obtaining more information about the incident for investigation and evaluation. It has not yet been determined that it is related to the vaccination.
According to the established mechanism, the Department of Health has submitted the case to the COVID-19 vaccine clinical event assessment expert committee for causality assessment as soon as possible, and will release the assessment results in due course.
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It is understood that the 63-year-old man was vaccinated with Kexing vaccination at the Guanyong Gymnasium Vaccine Center on February 26. He was admitted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital due to malaise and died on the 28th.
It is reported that the 60-year-old man himself has severe diabetes and bronchitis, and the vaccine clinical event evaluation expert committee will meet tomorrow to discuss the case.
Guo Baoxian, a representative of the Hong Kong Association of Private Practitioners and a specialist in surgery.
(Photo by Luo Junhao)
Dr. Kwok Po-yin, one of the doctors in charge of the Vaccination Center at Kwun Chung Stadium in Jordan, said that neither the government nor the hospital contacted him about the incident.
He also said that among the citizens who were vaccinated on February 26, no one felt unwell during the 30-minute observation period and no one needed to be sent to hospital.
He continued that even if citizens have severe diabetes, as long as the condition has been controlled, they can be vaccinated with Kexing vaccine. When asked how to assess whether a person has controlled their condition, he bluntly said, "What do you want to say?" Declare whether the condition is stable, whether the medication is taken on time, etc., "Unless the doctors visually check that they are not correct, they will first take the blood pressure."
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