Two more people who volunteered and received the coronavirus vaccine Pfizer / BioNTech, died in Norway. This was reported on Tuesday, January 5, by TASS citing the Norwegian Agency of Medicines.
The death of patients vaccinated with a new drug became known a few days after their vaccination. Nothing is known about further measures of local authorities. TASS notes that the circumstances of the deaths are currently being investigated, as well as whether this is related to the drug itself.
It is clarified that the vaccination campaign against coronavirus started in Norway on December 27. Residents of nursing homes in Oslo have already been vaccinated.
Previously it was reported that the Portuguese health worker Sonia Acevedo suddenly died 48 hours after being injected with the Pfizer / BioNTech coronavirus vaccine. Not long before that, information appeared that the deputy head of a hospital in the suburbs of Athens had received a vaccination from coronavirus and a few days later was in intensive care for artificial ventilation.
At the same time, earlier it became known that 4.2 million US residents received the first injection of two-component vaccines from Pfizer / BioNTech and Moderna. More than 13 million doses of vaccines have been distributed throughout the United States.