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Tamil actor Vivek passed away in a Chennai hospital early on Saturday following a cardiac arrest. He was 59.
“He passed away at 4.35 am,” read a medical bulletin from SIMS Hospital in Vadapalani.
Vivek was admitted to the intensive care unit of the hospital on Friday morning after he suffered a heart attack. Soon after he fell sick, there were claims that his illness was linked to him receiving the Covid-19 vaccine, following which the Tamil Nadu Health Department was forced to call a press meet to dispel the rumours.
Denying any links between his cardiac arrest and the vaccine shot he received, state Health Secretary J Radhakrishnan said around 830 people were administered the Covaxin at the same hospital on Thursday and all of them were fine.
Vivek was launched by legendary filmmaker K Balachander in the late 1980s. He went on to become one of the most sought after comedy actors of Tamil cinema in the 1990s and retained a stronghold in the industry.
Vivek was last seen in Dharala Prabhu, which was the Tamil remake of the Hindi film Vicky Donor.
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