‘Not alarming’: Deaths from vaccine jabs rise to 29 in Norway

OSLO: Norway has registered a total of 29 deaths among people over the age of 75 who have had their first Covid-19 vaccination shot, raising questions over which groups to target in programmes involving the Pfizer vaccine. Pfizer and Biontech are working with the Norwegian regulator to investigate the deaths, Pfizer said in a statement. It claimed the Norwegian agency found that “the number of incidents so far is not alarming, and in line with expectations”. The Norwegian Institute of Public Health judges that “for those with the most severe frailty, even relatively mild vaccine side effects can have serious consequences.”