After SinoVac COVID-19 Vaccination, Healthy Hong Kong Man Suffers Facial Paralysis

After SinoVac COVID-19 Vaccination, Healthy Hong Kong Man Suffers Facial Paralysis
A health worker shows a dose of CoronaVac vaccine during a COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Ankara, Turkey, on Jan. 27, 2021. Adem Altan/AFP via Getty Images
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A healthy 26-year-old Hong Kong man suffered facial paralysis after receiving the first dose of the China-made COVID-19 vaccine on March 24 as people in Hong Kong grow increasingly concerned about the safety of the Chinese vaccine.

The patient’s right eye was swollen, and “looked like it had been punched by somebody,” he told Hong Kong media Oriental Daily, about four hours after he was vaccinated with Chinese company SinoVac made CoronaVac.
Nicole Hao
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Nicole Hao is a Washington-based reporter focused on China-related topics. Before joining the Epoch Media Group in July 2009, she worked as a global product manager for a railway business in Paris, France.
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