People with severe allergic reactions should refrain from COVID vaccination for now, Ukrinform reports with reference to the BBC.

The alert comes amid two UK National Health Service (NHS) employees having an allergic reaction Tuesday after receiving a shot of vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech. They are thought to have had an anaphylactoid reaction (skin rash, shortness of breath, drop in blood pressure).

Both had serious allergic reactions before, as a result of which they had injections with adrenaline. The victims received the necessary assistance and are now doing well.

Amid these cases, the UK Medicines and Health Products Regulatory Agency advised anyone who has ever had a serious reaction to drugs, food or vaccines to refrain from vaccinations.

As the newspaper notes, such allergic reactions are rare, but they still occur with other vaccines, in particular, allergies can occur on the annual flu shot..

Such reactions have not been observed in clinical trials of the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccines, in which more than 20,000 people have been vaccinated.. However, people with a history of allergic reactions were not accepted as volunteers..

Recall that the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization on December 5 received from Ukraine the first part of the application for the COVAX global initiative for 8 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine.

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