As many as 3.8 lakh people have been vaccinated in India’s COVID-19 vaccination drive as on 5 pm on Monday (January 18) since it began three days ago, according to the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.
Two deaths were reported, one in Uttar Pradesh (UP) and another in Karnataka, but neither were related to the vaccines, said the government.
It is reported that 46-years-old Mahipal Singh, a ward boy at a government hospital in Moradabad, UP, died yesterday (January 17). He had received the COVID-19 vaccine 24 hours before but his death was not related to the vaccination, as per the district’s Chief Medical Officer.
Singh’s postmortem report suggested cause of death as a “cardiogenic shock/septicemic shock” caused due to “cardio-pulmonary disease”, said the UP government.
Another death was reported in Bellary in Karnataka, where a 43-year-old man died of cardio-pulmonary failure. His postmortem was yet to be done, according to the state government.
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