Zorena Jantze
THE minister of health and social services Dr. Kalumbi Shangula has stated that the deaths of people that are reported after being inoculated against COVID-19 are not vaccine related complications.
This comes after the health ministry on Monday reported that 9 people died after having taken their first jab of the COVID-19 vaccine on their health update of 5 July.
“No it’s just that we normally announce whether the person had been vaccinated or not, the deaths reported after vaccinations are not linked to complications arising from being inoculated at all. There won’t be any special inquiry into this,” Dr. Shangula stated.
Questioned on the outcome of the results of a 62-year-old pensioner that died hours after receiving the first jab of the vaccine, Dr. Shangula said that the ministry is still waiting for pathological and toxicology results.
Touching on the hesitancy of the public in taking vaccines, especially the AstraZeneca vaccine that has been banned in most European countries, Dr. Shangula stated that Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (TTS), a medical term for blood clotting found in the large vein of the brain, is a common condition which in rare cases is caused by taking the AstraZeneca vaccine.
“The banning of certain batches of the AstraZeneca vaccine is an old story and not valid any longer. It was thought that this vaccine caused blood clotting, but TTS existed even before the vaccine. It was discarded. It was found in people who did not even take vaccines so the theory was discarded,” Dr. Shangula stated.
According to studies from the World Health Organisation blood clotting caused by taking the AstraZeneca vaccine remain relatively low with studies in the UK showing that 20% of blood clotting cases were reported out 2.1 million people being vaccinated, whilst in Australia cases of blood clotting stood at 24%.
