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AstraZeneca succeeds in striking out suit by 12 Malaysians over Covid-19 vaccine effects
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 28 — AstraZeneca Sdn Bhd today succeeded in its bid to strike out a suit filed against it by 12 individuals involving claims of side effects from the Covid-19 vaccine, which allegedly caused serious consequences, including death.
Judge Suzana Muhamad Said allowed the application of AstraZeneca as the seventh defendant to quash the suit, which was filed last year.
Lawyer Hemalatha Ramulu, representing AstraZeneca, when contacted confirmed the matter after the online hearing, which was also attended by counsel Muhammad Shahrin Satheer, who represented all the plaintiffs.
Last year, a group of Malaysians filed a lawsuit against the government, the Ministry of Health (MOH) and Khairy Jamaluddin Abu Bakar, the minister in charge of the country’s vaccination programme at the time, as the first to third defendants.
The suit also named former Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, and three Covid-19 vaccine producers: Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Pharmaniaga as the fourth to seventh defendants.
In the statement of claim, all the plaintiffs claimed the MOH issued an invalid declaration and coerced agreement by the defendants to shield them from being held accountable for severe Covid-19 vaccine injection side effects.
The plaintiffs demanded that the defendants be held responsible for the side effects of the coronavirus vaccine injections, including severe complications leading to death, permanent disability, and other complications resulting in losses.
They also seek general and special damages that the defendants must pay due to the aforementioned side effects.
Furthermore, the plaintiffs insisted on all subsequent vaccines undergoing clinical trials, with complete reports on the effectiveness of the Covid-19 vaccines in controlling the pandemic’s transmission.
The plaintiffs also called for a temporary restriction on administering the vaccine to Malaysians until clinical studies are conducted with detailed reports presented.
