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She died 4 days after getting her Covid booster jab. Singapore paid her family in the Philippines US$169,000
- Ontal Charlene Vargas died of myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart. A coroner found it was likely related to the vaccine she had received
- The 43-year-old became unwell the morning after getting Pfizer-BioNTech’s Comirnaty vaccine booster shot in 2021. Within days, she was unresponsive
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The family of a woman who died about four days after receiving a Covid-19 vaccine booster jab was given S$225,000 (US$169,000) under Singapore’s Vaccine Injury Financial Assistance Programme, the Health Ministry said.
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Ontal Charlene Vargas, from the Philippines, died on December 13, 2021. The cause of her death was myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart, a coroner’s court heard on Friday.
State Coroner Adam Nakhoda found that on the balance of probabilities, it was likely to be related to Covid-19 vaccination.
The Health Ministry confirmed that this was the second death related to Covid-19 vaccination in Singapore. The first was a 28-year-old Bangladeshi man who died of myocarditis on July 9, 2021, about three weeks after receiving a Covid-19 vaccine.
The Vaccine Injury Financial Assistance Programme provides “one-time goodwill financial assistance” to people who experienced serious side effects that are assessed to be related to vaccines administered in Singapore.
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