A patient has died in the island following a Covid jab - but investigations have shown no link between the cause of death and the vaccine.

And three people have suffered blood clots after getting vaccinated.

But Health Minister David Ashford revealed details at a remote sitting of the House of Keys - but later had to issue a clarification.

Responding to a supplementary question from Daphne Caine (Garff), Mr Ashford said there were ’four or five’ cases of people going to A&E after having had the Covid vaccination.

At the Covid briefing, Chief Minister Howard Quayle said there had been a ’slight misinterpretation of the facts’ in the Keys.

He read out a clarification from the Health Minister which said that an individual who had suffered anaphylaxis after having the vaccine had not died as Mr Ashford had claimed that morning.

But another individual who had received the jab had died.

’Although they occurred around the same time in fact these were two separate cases,’ he said. ’The person who had anaphylaxis I am happy to confirm did not die and recovered. The death, I have now ben informed, was a different case.’

But he said we have to be very carefully here about linking two events together without the evidence to do so. ’Just because someone is vaccinated and then suffers a health condition it does not mean it was necessarily the result of the vaccine,’ he said.

He said although the person died shortly after receiving the vaccine, investigations have shown no link between the cause of death and the vaccine, and there were other underlying conditions.

The Department of Health and Social Care said that the person died on the same day that he or she had been vaccinated.

Earlier, Mr Ashford told MHKS he was personally aware of three cases where individuals had suffered blood clots after being vaccinated.

But he said the none of these were the cerebral sinus vein thrombosis (CSVT) type of blood clot that has been potentially linked to the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine.

’Again we need to be very careful about trying to link that back without the actual evidence to do so because people who have been vaccinated still do naturally become ill,’ the Minister told MHKs. ’In none of those cases do we necessarily have a causal link established.’