COVID-19 Vaccine Compensation Payment Given to Family of Japanese Woman Who Died

Health care workers prepare doses of a COVID-19 vaccine before administering them to staffers of Japan's supermarket group Aeon at the company's shopping mall in Chiba, Japan, on June 21, 2021. Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters

A Japanese health ministry committee awarded a compensation payment to the family of a woman who died after suffering an allergic response and sudden heart attack after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.

Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare said the woman was 91 when she received the shot and had preexisting health conditions including a history of transient ischemic attacks, local Japanese media reported. It’s not clear what vaccine the woman received.