UP hospital worker dies after vaccination, official denies link to shot

The worker was 46 years old

A 46-year-old health worker died here a day after receiving the coronavirus vaccination, officials said on Monday.

While Mahipal's family is blaming the death on vaccination, the authorities said that he suffered from a cardiac disease.

According to sources, he was working as a ward boy in the surgical ward of the Moradabad government hospital. He was vaccinated on Saturday and was not feeling well, they said.

Mahipal's son Vishal said his father called him to hospital as he was suffering from laboured breathing.

"My father had a cough but after the vaccination he was suffering from fever and laboured