SAMUT PRAKAN: A 73-year-old retired police officer died on Monday, five days after receiving a shot of AstraZenica Covid-19 vaccine, police said on Tuesday.
Pol Lt Kijjapat Ratanapan, a Bang Pu police duty officer, identified him as Pol Sub Lt Songpop Poosang.
At about 3pm, the retired officer collapsed and lost consciousness at house No.390/120 at Moo 3 village in tambon Bang Pu Mai of Muang district.
Rescuers from the Ruam Katanyu Foundation arrived shortly afterwards and tried to save his life by performing CPR, but were unsuccessful.
The body of Pol Sub Lt Songpop was sent to Rama Chakrinarubodin Hospital in Samut Prakan for an autopsy to establish the cause of death.
His wife, Ms Wannaporn, 70, said that before retirement her husband was an officer at Phlap Phla Chai police station in Bangkok. On June 9, he went to Samut Prakan Hospital and received an AstraZeneca shot.
On Monday afternoon, she said, he complained of breathing difficulties and a stomach ache, and then lost consciousness. She called an emergency rescue unit.
Ms Wannaporn believed her husband's death might be related to his receiving the Covid jab.
He had suffered from hypertension, diabetes and ischemic stroke but had shown no symptoms, she said.
In Chon Buri, two more Covid-19 deaths and another 50 new infections have been confirmed in this eastern province, the provincial public health office said on its Facebook page.
Of the new cases, six had at-risk occupations, three came from a construction worker camp in Bangkok and one from a cluster at Talad Ban Thung market in Si Racha district.
One contracted the disease in Chachoengsao, one had come into contact with a confirmed patient in Nonthaburi and two had contracted the virus from confirmed patients linked to a cluster at Talad Mai market.
A further nine patients had been infected by family members and 14 by colleagues.
The remaining 13 new cases were still under investigation, the official Facebook post said.