India, July 2 -- Amid recent cases and viral videos of young people suddenly collapsing and dying - sometimes at a wedding, another time at the gym or on a cricket pitch - the government of India has stressed there's no link to the sudden cardiac death with Covid-19 vaccines.

In a PIB press release, the central government cited two scientific studies to make this assertion on Wednesday. We sought to understand and distil what the evidence cited by the government says.

The government on Wednesday said theIndian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) have been working together on finding out whether the sudden cardiac-arrest deaths are linked to Covid vaccines, as suspected by a section of pe...