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Emergency departments are being swamped by patients who have had the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine and are suffering mild side effects.
Doctors have reported an increase of patients claiming to be suffering from the jab in the wake of concerns around blood clots raised earlier this week.
People saying they are suffering mild headaches after having the vaccine are clogging up hospitals, doctors said.
This week the company s vaccine was restricted for certain age groups in various countries around the world, including under-30s in Britain, after reports of rare blood clots in the brain and abdomen.
Officials insisted there is still no evidence the jab causes the blood conditions and stressed the benefits of vaccination far outweighed the risk.
Britons still back the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine - as 75 per cent tell pollsters they consider it to be safe.
Officials have launched a campaign to maintain confidence in jabs after medical regulators advised that under-30s should be offered an alternative to the Oxford inoculation amid blood clot fears.
And, as the Health Secretary looked to dispel concern by insisting that spotting rare side effects shows the safety system is working, a poll revealed that 75 per cent of Britons think the vaccine is safe to use.
While the results by YouGov show a drop of two percentage points since March, it ranks close to opinions of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine which 78 per cent dubbed safe, The Times reports.