11 people died of'suspected flu vaccine'... "It is not in a situation to stop vaccination."

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Reports of death after being vaccinated against the flu increased overnight, resulting in 11 cases nationwide.

Many people are anxious about whether it is okay, but the authorities said that it was not in a situation to stop vaccination, saying that a direct connection was not confirmed.

The first news, reporter Kang Cheong-wan reports.

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89-year-old man living in Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, died yesterday (21st) morning, 51 hours after vaccination.

From yesterday, the day after the vaccination, he complained of dizziness, but it was confirmed that he suffered from diabetes and high blood pressure.

A woman in her 50s in Seoul, who had no underlying disease, died after being transferred to a hospital due to breathing difficulties just two days after vaccination.

Women in their 70s in Andong and Daejeon, Gyeongsangbuk-do, who had been vaccinated, also died yesterday evening and this morning, respectively, with 11 suspected deaths after vaccination so far.

A man in his 80s, who was once reported as a death case after vaccination, was found to have suffocated while eating regardless of the vaccine, and was excluded from the number of suspected deaths from the vaccine.

More than half of the 11 people who died were found to have underlying diseases such as high blood pressure and diabetes.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it has investigated hundreds of people who received the same vaccine in the same hospital as the deceased, but said no serious cases were reported.

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however, the death toll of one of them after vaccination It is a situation that cannot rule out the possibility of'anaphylaxis', an acute shock, due to death in a relatively short 17 hours.

The National Institute for Scientific Investigation is conducting autopsies on some of the dead.

The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said that it is not in a situation to stop the vaccination business as the direct causality between death and vaccination has not been confirmed.