By Abhishek Kumar

UK-based Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca recently admitted in a court that in “very rare cases”, its Covid-19 vaccine can cause low platelet count and a blood clot-related side effect – Thrombosis Thrombocytopenia Syndrome. Since the admission, discussions about this vaccine have been dominating headlines. In India, AstraZeneca’s COVID vaccine was produced by the Serum Institute of India in Pune and was marketed under the name, ‘Covishield’. The Indian government made this vaccine available to citizens for free, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s image was on the certificates for both the first and second doses.

After AstraZeneca’s admission in court, many social media users claimed that the government removed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s image from the vaccine certificates after its side effects had been revealed.

Congress’ Professor Varsha Eknath Gaikwad shared one such vaccine certificate that did not feature Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s image. While sharing it, she claimed that his image was removed from the vaccine certificate since AstraZeneca admitted that its vaccine could cause heart attacks.

Retired Indian Air Force fighter pilot Rajiv Tyagi also made a similar claim in a tweet.

Supreme Court senior advocate Prashant Bhushan also made a sarcastic jab at the prime minister while promoting the claim, calling it a wonder of Modi.

Fact Check

Alt News performed a keyword search using terms related to this issue, which led us to an article published on May 1 by ‘The Print‘. According to an officer of the health ministry cited in the report, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s image had been removed from the COVID vaccine certificate as per the election Model Code of Conduct.

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