South Africans have been reassured that COVID-19 vaccines do not cause severe illness and if people do feel unwell they should contact their nearest health care practitioner.
This comes after a picture was posted on social media by someone claiming to have suffered adverse effects from the COVID-19 vaccine.
Health Department Deputy Director-General Dr Nicholas Crisp said that the vaccines were safe.
“So when we get an immune response, whether it’s to flu or any other illness, we sometimes get a bit of a temperature, we sometimes get cold sweats or body pains or whatever and that’s exactly what happens most of the time when we get vaccinated with a vaccine. You will get some local irritation around the site,” Dr Crisp said.
He said that more adverse effects were very rare.
“Occasionally, very occasionally, like out of 28 million doses that we have given, we get a handful of people who have reacted a little worse than that. They can be serious but at this is very rare that you get these serious events,” he said.
-EWN
In other news – VIDEO: SA rich kid drives Porsche to school
Yesterday was the first day of school for many Mzansi learners and the day was quite eventful as always. A Grade 12 learner is currently trending on social media after she posted on Instagram how she is showing up to school.
The leaner who goes by the username @Yanda.Woods took to social media to show off that she was driving to her first day of matric with a Porsche, carrying a Christian Dior bag for her books and wearing Louis Vuitton shades. Learn More
