A Portuguese female health worker, Sonia Acevedo has died two days after getting the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Reports say the 41 year-old woman suffered a ‘sudden death’ at home on New Year day
An autopsy is expected to take place later today.
It was the first report of fatality arising from the vaccine, developed by Pfizer and German firm BioNTech.
There had been other allergic reactions to the vaccine which includes a Mexican doctor who was admitted in the ICU after she experienced seizures, difficulty breathing and a skin rash.
The 32-year-old female doctor is based in Mexico’s northern Female Health Worker Acevedo Dies 2 Days After Pfizer Vaccine of Nuevo Leon. She suffered the severe allergic reactions after receiving the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine.
In contrast, Portugal’s Sonia Acevedo a mother-of-two did not suffer any adverse side-effects after being vaccinated.
Ms Acevedo’s father Abilio Acevedo told Portuguese daily Correio da Manha: ‘She was okay. She hadn’t had any health problems.
‘She had the Covid-19 vaccine but she didn’t have any symptoms. I don’t know what happened.
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