NEW DELHI: Several participants in Serum Institute’s Covid Vaccine trial who were given the second shot of the vaccine we;ll after the serious adverse eventy reported by a trial participant in chennai feel betrayed that they were not tolod about the chennai incident.
Trial participants confirmed that none of them had been informed about the adversew event taht occured in Chennai. All of them had participated in the trial out of a sense of doing something useful and good for the larger society.
Meanwhile a press briefing on Tuesday, The Union Health Secretary said he cpould not go comment on the specific adverse event because the participant had filed a case in court and he did not want to comment on a court matter. However, the trial participant’s lawer said only a legal notice has been sent and two weeks have been given for all parties to respond. No Case has been files yet. And the company has not even sent a legal notice, only talked about filing a suit in the media.”said his advocate R Rajaram.
