According to Reuters, officials in Switzerland's canton of Lucerne said on Wednesday that a Swiss person who was among the first in the country to be vaccinated with a COVID-19 shot later died. However, they did not indicate whether the death was related to the inoculation. “We are aware of the case,” a spokesperson said. The matter had been referred to the Swiss drugs regulator Swissmedic.

Lucerne became the site of the first vaccinations in Switzerland beginning last week, with a shot from Pfizer/BioNTech given primarily to elderly people. Switzerland has gotten 107,000 vaccine doses, so far, and expects to receive 250,000 per month starting 2021.