Bleeding and clotting after Covid-19 vaccination minuscule: Govt report

Bleeding and clotting cases following Covid-19 vaccination in India are minuscule but definitive and in line with the expected number of such diagnoses, a report submitted by the national committee on the Adverse Effects Following Immunisation (AEFI) on Monday said. 

The government decided to conduct an in-depth analysis of adverse events in India in light of global concerns, the health ministry said. Some countries on March 11 raised an alert on post-vaccination embolic and thrombotic events, particularly with AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine — Covishield in India, the ministry said. 

The reporting rate of these events in India is around 0.61 per million doses, lower