Woman who died a day after Covid-19 jab had heart attack, wasn’t allergic to vaccine, says Singapore MOH


The woman received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on June 3, 2021. - THe Straits Times/ANN

SINGAPORE, June 20 (The Straits Times/ANN): The Ministry of Health (MOH) has said that there was no indication that a 72-year-old woman who died a day after she received her first Covid-19 jab had had an allergic reaction to the vaccine.

It was responding on Saturday (June 19) to media queries about a Facebook post by Andrew Tan, who questioned if his mother's death could have been caused by the vaccine.

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