A nurse in Portugal has died within 48 hours of receiving the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine. Forty-one year-old Sonia Acevedo had received the vaccine on December 30 and died on January 1 at her residence.
Acevedo’s
death has led to fears about the safety of the Pfizer vaccine among people.
She worked as
a nurse in the pediatric department at the Portuguese Institute of Oncology in
Porto.
Acevedo’s
father Abilio Acevedo has demanded a probe by the authorities into the sudden
death of his daughter.
”She was
okay. She didn’t suffer from any health problems,” a report quoted Abilio
Acevedo as saying.
“She didn’t
have any symptoms even after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine. I don’t know what
happened. I want to know what led to my daughter’s death,” said the father who
is in shock.
American drug
maker Pfizer had claimed that its vaccine was 95 per cent effective and had no
serious side effects.
Pfizer had
developed the vaccine with its partner BioNTech.
The vaccine
that was developed in a record 10 months’ time is administered in two shots
within a gap of 21 days.
The UK was
the first country to approve the vaccine for mass use in the second week of
December last year.
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