As of Monday, the CECC had reported a total of 653 post-vaccination deaths from 10.25 million vaccine doses administered in Taiwan to date, with 416 of them involving people over the age of 75.
Among the deaths, 536 received the AstraZeneca brand of vaccine while the rest received the Moderna vaccine.
A total of 145 autopsies of the 653 deceased have been completed so far, with 139 indicating no direct link to the COVID-19 vaccine and six cases still undetermined, according to CECC.
To put this in perspective Taiwan reported 16,321 cases of COVID-19 with 863 deaths, a 5% death rate which is 833 times greater death rate than the vaccine
