A day after the Karnataka authorities shaped a committee to probe a “collection of deaths” because of coronary heart assaults in Hassan district, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday urged the “hasty approval and distribution of the Covid vaccine may be a cause for these deaths”.
In a put up on X, he wrote that greater than 20 folks had died of coronary heart assaults previously one month alone. “To determine the precise trigger of those collection of deaths and to search out options, a committee of consultants has been shaped beneath the management of Dr Ravindranath, Director of Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Analysis, they usually have been instructed to submit a examine report inside 10 days,” he mentioned.
An order was issued earlier additionally, in February, “to conduct an intensive examine on the explanations behind sudden deaths amongst younger folks within the state, and whether or not the COVID vaccines might have any hostile results”.
The method of analyzing and analysing coronary heart sufferers is underway, Siddaramaiah mentioned.
“It can’t be denied that the hasty approval and distribution of the Covid vaccine to the general public may be a cause for these deaths, as a number of research worldwide have just lately indicated that COVID vaccines might be a trigger for the rising variety of coronary heart assaults,” Siddaramaiah wrote within the put up.
The chief minister additional mentioned the federal government was making each doable effort to guard folks’s well being. “I urge everybody to go to the closest well being middle instantly for a check-up if in case you have signs akin to chest ache or issue respiratory. Don’t ignore these indicators,” he mentioned.
Siddaramaiah additionally accused BJP leaders of utilizing the guts assault deaths for political achieve.

