Month: March 2021

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai health officials rushed to calm public fears on Friday after confirming a man had died 10 days after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine earlier this month. The cause of death was from an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) and rupture, senior health official Sopon Mekton said, adding the country's vaccination campaign would continue. The man was inoculated on March 3 and died on March 13. "I am confident this death is from the aneurysm and not related to the vaccine," Sopon told a news conference. An AAA is the swelling of the main blood vessel that leads from the heart and ruptures can be fatal. The man, whose age was not disclosed, had a pre-existing health condition and had undergone surgery in January, said health official Tawee Chotpitayasunond, describing it as "a ti...

The individuals recently traveled from Guinea and Democratic Republic of the Congo, which are experiencing Ebola outbreaks. Health officials say public risk is low. Editor's note: The attached video originally ran on KING 5 in 2016. Public health officials in Washington state are monitoring 23 low-risk people who recently traveled from areas experiencing an Ebola virus disease outbreak, according to the Washington Department of Health. There is low risk for people in Washington, state health officials said. The individua...

Senate Speaker Ken Lusaka takes his first shot of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine in Nairobi on Wednesday. [Courtesy]The Ministry of Health has included people who are 58 years and above in the ongoing Phase One Covid-19 vaccination. Chairperson of the Covid-19 Vaccine Deployment Task force Willis Akhwale said that bracket “accounts for 60 per cent of our recorded deaths”. He urged political, religious and community leaders to take the jab and boost confidence in the overall vaccination process. This change comes as Kenya is facing a third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic that has stretched the country’s health system, especially for critical care services following increased hospitalisations and deaths. Persons aged 50 and above were scheduled to start getting the jab in the second p...