No evidence vaccines make the 72-year-old man unwell

There is no evidence that a 72-year-old man suffered from heart palpitations due to being vaccinated by the Beijing-made Sinovac shot against Covid-19, the medical group running the  center where he received the jab said.

The man was the city's first case of hospitalization after the government rolled out the Covid-19 vaccination program last week using the Sinovac product.

The man remains in stable condition at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, a day after he received the vaccine at Kwun Chung Sports Centre in Jordan on Saturday morning.

The center’s medical director Samuel Kwok Po-yin said the man has a record of hypertension.

Some 10 minutes after the inoculation, he felt heart palpitations at the rest area where vaccine recipients stay for 30 minutes for observation.

Kwok said medics at the site immediately checked his pulse and found it to be around 100 beats per minute.

“This happened shortly after he got the jab and he has never experienced heart palpitations before,” he said. “There were several faster beats in between normal pulses,” he added.
As a precautionary measure, doctors sent the man on an ambulance to QEH for further monitoring.

Secretary for the Civil Service Patrick Nip Tak-kuen responsible for the Covid-19 vaccination program said he is concerned about the man’s case. He said each vaccination center has a medical support station where doctors and medics are on standby for emergency situations.