Man in Taiwan Receives $32,000 in Compensation For Developing Blood Clot After COVID-19 Vaccination

Commuters wear masks at a railway station in Taipei, Taiwan, on Dec. 2, 2020. An Rong Xu/Getty Images

TAIPEI, Taiwan—A man in Taiwan has received government compensation of NT$900,000 ($32,320) for suffering from a rare blood clotting condition after being vaccinated against COVID-19.

The unnamed man, who lives in central Taiwan’s Taoyuan City, was suffering from thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS), after getting a jab of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine, said Chuang Jen-hsiang, spokesperson for Taiwan’s Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC), during a press briefing on Nov. 3.