Pharma Body Refutes Covid Shot's Heart Risk

The Pharmaceutical Industry on Thursday refuted Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah's remarks linking Covid-19 vaccines with a spate of heart attack deaths in the state's Hassan district, saying such claims without scientific evidence are factually incorrect and misleading.

- PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Pharmaceutical industry leaders asserted that Covid-19 vaccines have been well-documented and rigorously tested according to regulatory standards, and linking them to the deaths in Hassan district due to cardiac ailments "without any scientific evidence is incorrect and misleading".

In a post on professional networking platform LinkedIn, Sun Pharma chairman and MD Dilip Shanghvi termed "unfortunate" the "deaths of multiple young individuals in one district of Karnataka due to cardiac ailments".