Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) deaths and (b) adverse reactions have been officially recorded against covid-19 vaccinations; and how many have been examined to establish the cause and/or trigger.

As of 15 December 2021, The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) received and analysed 145,446 United Kingdom (UK) Yellow Cards from people who have received the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine. These reports include a total of 416,479 suspected reactions (i.e. a single report may contain more than one symptom). In 666 of the Pfizer vaccine reports, the patient was reported to have died shortly after vaccination

For the Astra Zeneca COVID-19 vaccine, a total of 240,065 Yellow Card reports of 850,893 suspected reactions, including 1164 deaths have been received. For the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, a total of 24,721 Yellow Card reports of 82,698 suspected reactions, including 23 deaths have been received.

These suspected reactions are in the context of over 132 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine given in the UK so far. The MHRA closely monitors the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines used in the UK vaccination programme.

MHRA assesses all Yellow Card reports of deaths and all Yellow Card reports are continually reviewed to detect possible new side effects that may require regulatory action, and to differentiate these from events that would have happened regardless of the vaccine or medicine being administered, for instance due to underlying or undiagnosed illness.