Complaints filed with the Emergency Health Hazard and Disease Control Division of the Department of Disease Control at the Ministry of Public Health allege 2,081 deaths after over 120 million vaccine doses were administered up to February 13th last or just 0.00173%. Even so, officials, however, in nearly all cases reported, have ruled out links to the vaccines and in many cases attributed the deaths to concomitant events. Only 4 deaths have been confirmed by the ministry as being related to the vaccines or a minuscule 0.000003% and an even lower level in relation to reported adverse reactions.
A South Korean hotelier was found dead on Saturday in Kanchanaburi at his hotel in what police initially indicated were non-suspicious circumstances. His sister told officers that the 38-year-old man had complained in the days running up to his death of a weakness in his arm after recently receiving his second COVID-19 vaccine dose. It comes as Thailand’s Department of Disease Control has released figures which show a very low level of confirmed adverse reactions to over 120 million COVID-19 vaccines administered in the country. The relatively low level of complaints filed concerning deaths allegedly caused by the vaccination drive with the control division at the Ministry of Public Health is driven even lower as medical experts have, so far, only conceded 4 deaths.
A 38-year-old South Korean hotelier was found dead on Saturday in Kanchanaburi at his hotel in the centre of the town after an employee at the establishment entered his office on the second floor when she received no response initially.
Local police, a doctor and medical rescue personnel were called to the scene by Ms Saron Jeon, the sister of the deceased man.
She told police that her brother, identified as Kim Kyoung Cheon, had received his second dose of the Moderna vaccine in the last week having received his first dose of the mRNA vaccine in January this year.
He had complained to her, in recent days, that his left arm felt weak.
Body of hotelier found by the housekeeper, lying on the floor in his office wearing shorts and T-shirt
The body of 38-year-old Mr Kim was discovered lying on the floor of the office by the housekeeper, Ms Chalao Runkasem.
His computer was on and it appears that he had been playing a game according to police officers who surveyed the scene later.
He was wearing shorts and a T-shirt.
Ms Chalao initially checked to see if Mr Kim was breathing and when she ascertained that he was not, she raised the alarm by contacting his sister who phoned for emergency services.
Dead for 6 to 8 hours confirmed responding doctor
The doctor called to the scene told police that the hotelier had been dead for 6 to 8 hours before his body was discovered. He applied an antigen test for the COVID-19 virus which came back with a negative result.
Police investigating the incident found no traces of a struggle in the room nor any sign of suspicious activity.
The body of the South Korean national was sent to the Police General Hospital in Bangkok to determine the cause of death.
Investigators will be looking for an underlying health condition or evidence to suggest that the man died as a result of some adverse reaction to the recent administration of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Data from the Ministry of Public Health shows a low level of adverse reactions to over 120 million vaccine doses administered to February 13th last
The most recent confirmed data from the Ministry of Public Health linked with the administration of vaccines in Thailand suggests a particularly low level of adverse reactions to the jabs with a report issued this week suggesting only 79 confirmed allergic reactions to the various vaccines.
At the same time, there has also been a relatively low number of complaints about the vaccines causing death at 0.00173% of all doses administered although only a handful of these cases have been proven or confirmed by authorities.
Thailand, up to February 13th, has administered 120 million vaccines including 26.4 million Sinovac, 46.8 million AstraZeneca, 14.7 million Sinopharm, 27.6 million Pfizer and 4.3 million Moderna doses.
43 of these confirmed reactions were linked to the Sinovac jab, 22 to AstraZeneca, 3 to Sinopharm and 11 to Pfizer.
There were 31 people reported as suffering from pericarditis, a swelling or irritation in the tissue surrounding the heart.
Only four deaths were confirmed as linked to a vaccine dose linked with Covid, two of these from thrombosis
Dr Chawetsan Namwat, the Director of the Emergency Health Hazard and Disease Control Division at the Department of Disease Control explained that 29 of these cases were linked with the Pfizer jab with one each to Sinopharm and AstraZeneca.
Dr Chawetsan said that 6 people had suffered from a complicated case of thrombosis or blocked veins or arteries aggravated with Thrombocytopenia, a condition that causes clotting because of a low platelet count.
Five of these were linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine with one linked with the Pfizer jab.
This condition accounted for two of the four deaths in Thailand confirmed as linked to the COVID-19 vaccination campaign with one caused by severe shock and another death coming as the result of Stevens-Johnson syndrome.
One death caused by Stevens-Johnson syndrome
This is quite a severe and rather painful disorder that disrupts the body’s internal mucous membrane, genitalia and eyes.
Dr Chawetsan, however, revealed that 2,081 complaints were received by authorities in Thailand of deaths of people thought to be linked with side effects caused by a COVID-19 vaccine.
Investigations have shown that 177 deaths were the result of severe symptoms brought on by heart disease, intracerebral haemorrhage and thrombosis. A further 938 cases were attributed by physicians to problems caused by an infected nervous system, pneumonitis and other disorders.
The underlying cause of death, however, in the remainder of these cases, has yet to be confirmed.
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