The boy, a resident of Thuan Chau District, received his first vaccine dose on December 4 and did not show unusual symptoms 60 minutes after injection, deputy director of Son La’s health department Nguyen Huu Hung, told VN Express on Wednesday.
As things are the 15-year-old boy in the Northern province of Son La has become the fourth child in Vietnam to die after receiving the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine.
Two days later he became dizzy and nauseous.
He was taken to the district hospital before being transferred to the Son La General Hospital where he died on Tuesday.
His death comes as shock and according to statistics he is now the fourth child to die after getting the vaccine in Vietnam.
Vietnam is in the process of vaccinating nine million children aged 12-17.
Last month, a 12-year-old boy in the southern province of Binh Phuoc, a 16-year-old boy in the northern province of Bac Giang and a ninth-grade girl in Hanoi died after being inoculated with the Pfizer vaccine.
The Health Ministry has declared cause of the three deaths as “overreaction to the vaccine,” and not linked to the quality of the vaccine or the vaccination process.
The vaccine in use is produced by Pfizer.
As of December 6, 5.3 million doses have been administered to this age group, of which over 936 200 children have received two doses.
The health ministry says it has recorded around 0.3 percent of the vaccinated children showing common vaccination symptoms such as fever, pain at the injection spot, muscle pain, headache and tiredness.
Sources: VN Express International
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