3rd Telangana healthcare worker dies after Covid-19 jab: report

A third healthcare worker has died in Telangana after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine earlier this month, India Today reported on Sunday. Officials from the state's health department have claimed that 55-year-old woman died due to co-morbidities and not the Covid-19 vaccine, the report said.  The healthcare worker from Kashipet was vaccinated on January 19 and she started suffering from shortness of breath and giddiness earlier this week. She was admitted to a local hospital on Janaury 29 and then shifted to a hospital in Hyderabad. She died on Saturday. The India Today report said earlier a healthcare worker who was vaccinated had died in Nirmal and another in Warangal districts of the state.