Bakradze MEGA

Bakradze MEGA

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2021: Death after vaccine vaccination AstraZeneca

On March 18, 2021, the Ministry health care Georgia announced the death of a 27-year-old nurse who had previously been vaccinated against coronavirus. COVID-19 medicine of AstraZeneca According to the statement of the department, she died in the hospital from anaphylactic shock, which appeared in her immediately after the vaccination.

Megi Bakradze was vaccinated against coronavirus at the Imedi clinic in Akhaltsikhe, where she worked as a nurse. Immediately after the vaccination, she gave interviews to journalists of several local and national television companies, saying that she felt great and called on all citizens, primarily her colleagues, to immediately be vaccinated with an "absolutely safe vaccine. AstraZeneca"

But after about 30-40 minutes, she developed anaphylactic shock. Nearby were colleagues who immediately began to provide assistance, but the medical worker fell into a coma.

Local media also reported that relatives of a nurse who fell into a coma tried to break into the hospital and broke the glass in the institution, after which the police arrived at the scene.

On March 18, the Deputy Minister of Health of the Republic, Tamar Gabunia, announced that the authorities intend to conduct an investigation into the side effect of the AstraZeneca. For this period, vaccination against coronavirus in Georgia may be suspended. According to Gabunia, the Georgian authorities will appeal to the WHO international committee, "since cases of this type require international accountability and causal analysis should be carried out according to international standards."

Georgia on March 13, 2021, through the COVAX platform, received the first batch of 43,200 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine produced in South Korea. Vaccination of the population began on March 15. Georgia also agreed to supply the US-German Pfizer vaccine and the US Novavax vaccine to the country.^[1]

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