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A woman in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, was paralyzed shortly after receiving Covishield, a version of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine made in India, national media reported on Wednesday.
KIEV (UrduPoint News / Sputnik – April 28, 2021) A woman in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev was paralyzed shortly after receiving Covishield, a version of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine made in India, national media reported on Wednesday.
According to the 1 + 1 TV channel, the woman has been bedridden for almost a month with loss of sensation in most of her body. She was paralyzed on the third day after receiving the vaccine and was diagnosed with myelitis, an inflammation of the spinal cord.
The head of the neuroinfections department of the Ukrainian Institute of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, Pavlo Dyachenko, did not rule out a possible link between paralysis and vaccination.
A special commission probes the connection.
Ukraine received the first 500,000-dose batch of AstraZeneca / Oxford COVID-19 vaccine from India on February 23, launching the mass vaccination campaign the next day. To date, 558,716 out of some 44 million people have been vaccinated.
The country has also received more than 367,000 doses of the South Korean-made AstraZeneca / SKBio COVID-19 vaccine through the COVAX facility, in addition to Pfizer / BioNTech.
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