Lithuania has recorded some 1,200 cases of adverse reactions to Covid-19 vaccine jabs in the third quarter this year, the State Medicines Control Agency (VVKT) reported on Friday.
“Most of the reports [...] concerned mild suspected adverse reactions, which comprised 90.5 percent of [all reports],” VVKT director Gytis Andrulionis said.
There were also 115 cases of severe adverse reactions, or 9.5 percent of the total cases, according to Andriulionis.
The agency also received seven reports about deaths following vaccination in Lithuania and one report about death after vaccination outside Lithuania. Most of those deaths were due to cardiovascular diseases.
“The causal link between these deaths and the vaccine remains unconfirmed,” VVKT director said.
In all, 636 reports were related to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, 145 had to do with the Moderna vaccine, 192 with the AstraZeneca vaccine, and 225 were linked to the Janssen vaccine.
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Some 5,500 reports on adverse reactions to vaccines were received between January and September, which accounted for 0.18 percent of the total number of vaccine shots administered.
This year, the agency “received 5,505 reports on suspected adverse reactions by September 30”, Andrulionis said.
Adverse reactions were reported in people aged from 12 to 95.
In most cases, adverse reactions were reported by the vaccinated people themselves.
The most common adverse reactions included pain, swelling, or redness where the vaccine was injected, chills, headache and fever, which usually went away in a few days.
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