A Swiss-based nursing home that was among the first in the country to be vaccinated against COVID-19 later died, but officials did not indicate whether the death was related to the sting, according to reports.
“We are aware of the case,” an official from the canton of Lucerne told Reuters, adding that the matter has been referred to Swiss drug regulator Swissmedic.
Lucerne was the site of the first shot of Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech administered in Switzerland mainly for the elderly.
The vaccination team had not contacted a doctor at the residence, according to the local newspaper zeitpunkt.ch.
According to the report, the resident, who received the coronavirus vaccine on Christmas night, had previously reacted negatively to the flu vaccine.
The person with dementia complained of urethral and abdominal pain on Saturday, the Swiss center reported. Later, the resident’s blood pressure dropped and the pulse increased.
On Monday, the facility did not report the patient’s deterioration, zeitpunkt.ch reported.
The next day, the doctor was informed, but the patient died shortly afterwards, according to the media.
So far, Switzerland has received 107,000 doses of vaccine and expects to get 250,000 a month starting next year, according to Reuters.
The country has documented five cases of a variant of the UK coronavirus and two cases of a South African variant, said a Swiss health ministry official, who anticipated that more cases of these spread mutations would arise. fast.
In Israel, a 75-year-old man also died after receiving a vaccine against COVID-19, but his death was said to have been from a heart attack believed to be unrelated to the sting.
The unidentified man was shot by Pfizer at 8:30 a.m. Monday and within hours had lost consciousness and died at his home in Beit She’an, the Jerusalem Post said.