Health au­thor­i­ties in Ire­land are de­bunk­ing claims that the death of a Trinidad and To­ba­go doc­tor at the Wex­ford Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, Ire­land, was linked to him re­ceiv­ing a COVID-19 vac­cine.

Dr Ke­shav Shar­ma, son of for­mer T&T Chief Jus­tice Sat­nar­ine Shar­ma, died on Jan­u­ary 10, just five days af­ter re­ceiv­ing the vac­cine.

One so­cial me­dia post shared more than 300 times claimed that the doc­tor was “found dead af­ter Covid vac­cine” and linked his death with his vac­ci­na­tion a num­ber of days be­fore.

How­ev­er, the Health Prod­ucts Reg­u­la­to­ry Au­thor­i­ty (HPRA), the reg­u­la­to­ry body for med­i­cines in Ire­land, con­firmed there have been no re­ports of deaths for which there were con­cerns about the COVID-19 vac­cine.

“The HPRA has not re­ceived a re­port of a fa­tal­i­ty for which there is con­cern that a COVID-19 vac­cine had a con­trib­u­to­ry role,” the HPRA told The­Jour­nal.ie.