CYPRUS: Death of 42-year-old from thromboembolic event may be linked to vaccination

Yellow card for the death of a 42-year-old woman who left her last breath in the Intensive Care Unit of the General Hospital, after a thromboembolic incident, the Pharmaceutical Services received.

As stated by the Deputy Director of Pharmaceutical Services, Elena Panagiotopoulou in her intervention on his show ANT1 "Mera Mesimeri", when we say yellow card we mean the official report of the incident.

"At 07:47 in the morning we had received a yellow card for the incident from the personal doctor… He believes that it may be related to the vaccination", said Ms. Panagiotopoulou.

He pointed out that for their part they must gather all the information they need, so that they have in front of them all the data required for a thorough investigation of the specific incident, since once the Pharmaceutical Services have been reported, they must investigate the incident.

Regarding the fact that the yellow card was sent two months after the vaccination of the 42-year-old, Ms. Papadopoulou noted that usually the reports are made 2 to 3 months after the vaccination, however the Pharmaceutical Services must investigate the incident and they will do so.

The investigation of this report will be done on the basis of an algorithm of the World Health Organization and is examined according to nine criteria. It is then divided into possible interconnection, unlikely or even definite interconnection of the thromboembolic episode with the vaccine.

The whole incident will then be sent to the European Medicines Agency for further evaluation, where the investigation will be done in all cases and not individually.