Chinese Families Silenced After Members Died After Vaccination

Chinese authorities have pressured and silenced citizens whose families died after getting vaccinated against COVID-19, according to sources inside China.

At least two who received Chinese-made vaccines died after taking the shots—one in just two days—in Chongqing city, Sichuan Province, over the past two months. Authorities have since monitored their close contacts and accused one outspoken family of leaking “state secrets.”

Footage from an on-site surveillance camera showed Chinese citizen Cai Hua fainting 10 minutes after taking a vaccine at the community health service center on July 13. She passed away three weeks later, according to her sister, Cai Bangying.

The latter told The Epoch Time that she has been investigating the cause of her sister’s death. On Aug. 14, Bangying received a call from the district police, who forbade her to post anything online related to Hua’s death and vaccination.

Two days later, police found her and knocked on the door during late hours. Early on Aug. 23, a female police officer surnamed Cui appeared at the entrance of her apartment building with several unidentified individuals.

According to Bangying, the footage recorded that Hua fell to the ground at 7:15 p.m. and was sent to the hospital 20 minutes later, witnessed by medical staff and onlookers nearby.

The family filled out an application form in mid-August requesting authorized diagnosis and appraisal, but they have not yet received a response.

An application form filled out by Cai Bangying requests for an investigation into her sister’s death which occurred just after she was vaccinated. (Courtesy of Cai Bangying)

“The government ought to take responsibility for whatever they are responsible for,” Bangying said. “It was caused by vaccination.”

China’s top epidemiologist Zhong Nanshan declared during a summit on July 31 in Guangzhou that China-made doses were “effective” and “very safe,” adding that Chinese vaccines are 100 percent effective in preventing intensive care admission.

The municipal health commission of Chongqing did not respond to inquiries from The Epoch Times.

‘State Secrets’

A Chongqing citizen of Yuzhong district died on July 16, two days after he showed side effects following vaccination at a local Chinese medicine hospital.

His son, Xiao Fubin, posted on the Internet that his father died 32 hours after receiving the vaccine, despite emergency rescue efforts, calling on state authorities to take responsibility.

As soon as his message reached out to media, state security found Xiao, claiming that he was suspected of “leaking state secrets,” a trusted source told The Epoch Times.

The medical worker administers a dose COVID-19 vaccine to a resident at a community health service in Wuhan, China on June 21, 2021. (Getty Images)

According to the source, about another five people in Chongqing died after vaccination, but the families’ cell phones are being monitored and tracked by local authorities.

“They are not comfortable talking about it, worrying that their friends and relatives will be implicated.”

The mayor of Huaibei municipal government said on Aug. 19 that China aimed to achieve vaccination coverage for “1.1 billion by the end of October,” in a bid to win the “People’s War,” state-run media said. The report has since been deleted from the internet.

“Normal human considerations are negligible in a so-called case of a war,” Lin Xiaoxu, a former virology researcher at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, said as a guest speaker during a NTD Chinese language program on Aug. 25.

China commentator Qin Peng said, during the program, “ [In wartime], a death toll is just a number, or the price you have to pay.”

Rita Li

Rita Li is a reporter with The Epoch Times, focusing on China-related topics. She began writing for the Chinese-language edition in 2018.