More than 90% of Hong Kong residents have received at least one dose of the vaccine, and the total number of vaccination doses has reached 16.48 million.
The Vaccine Unusual Events Protection Fund, set up with a government grant of $1 billion, has awarded a compensation of $2 million for a death case for the first time.
The case involved a 66-year-old woman who had been vaccinated with Fubitai 16 days before her death.
This case is the only one for the time being that was rated as "indeterminate" as the cause of death by the Expert Committee on Clinical Event Assessment and whether it was related to the vaccine, and was finally approved for the protection fund.
▼March 27 Kwun Tong Community Vaccination Service▼
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As of April 23 this year, the Protection Fund has received a total of 843 applications. The Expert Committee has completed the causality assessment of 551 cases, of which 328 cases were assessed as "consistent with immunization causality" or "uncertain", and 223 cases were assessed as "causal relationship with immunization" Rated as "not relevant to the vaccine administered" or "unclassifiable".
Among them, the New Crown Vaccine Clinical Event Evaluation Expert Committee has awarded compensation to 242 cases, including one death and 241 injury cases.
66-year-old woman died of myocarditis with parvovirus gene in heart tissue
One death case involved a 66-year-old woman who received the first dose of Fubitai in July last year and died 16 days later. The autopsy confirmed that the cause of death was myocarditis.
Microscopic examination showed that the heart of the deceased had features associated with viral myocarditis. The deceased also suffered from pneumonia, which was an important condition leading to death. Parvovirus genes were also found in her heart tissue.
The expert committee concluded that because parvovirus infection was one of the known causes of myocarditis, the presence of viral genes in the heart tissue of the deceased made the situation divergent and could not establish the deceased as having myocarditis and vaccination, even if the event was time-linked to vaccination There is a causal relationship.
In the end, the case was rated as "indeterminate causal relationship with immunization" by the expert committee, and a death benefit of 2 million was issued.
241 injuries, including immediate severe allergic reaction, hospitalization, Bell's palsy, myocarditis, erythema multiforme, were also approved for a total of 31.51 million compensation.
As for the 4 cases that were assessed as the result of the severity assessment, no security payment was granted.
▼On April 14, Chief Executive Carrie Lam received the fourth dose of Sinovac vaccine▼
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