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Professor Alison McMillan, the Authorities’s Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer stated the chance for folks over 60 dying from COVID-19 is far greater than the chance of getting a facet impact from the vaccine.

“When you’re over 60, please do not hesitate to go forward and get that reserving to your vaccine,” she stated.

“Though we do know there are unintended effects from the AstraZeneca vaccine, in case you contract COVID-19 you might be a lot, more likely to get unwell or die than you probably have a facet impact from the vaccine.

“Present knowledge in Australia says that the over-60s, of those that contract COVID, 14 per cent of these die.

“It is a actually vital message that this vaccine will defend you from this virus, however you do have to get the vaccine.”