You may have many questions about COVID-19 vaccines. To keep everyone safe, make sure that the information you’re reading, listening to and sharing is from a credible source. Visit the ‘Is it true?’ page on health.gov.au to get the most up to date information.
Getting the vaccine helps protect you, your community and your loved ones from getting severe COVID-19 sickness. Vaccines work by training your body to recognise and fight the virus that causes COVID-19. Both COVID-19 vaccines show they are very good at protecting against severe illness and death.
Everyone in Australia can get a free COVID-19 vaccination when it’s their turn. Yarn to your local health worker about where you can get your vaccine or visit health.gov.au
Even though not everyone gets them, mild side effects such as feeling sick, a sore arm, fever, muscle aches or headaches are a sign that the vaccine is working to create an immune response. For most of people, these usually last for a couple of days. If you have a side effect that worries you, please …
If you are pregnant, talk to your doctor about the COVID-19 vaccines. If you are healthy and are not at high risk of exposure to COVID-19, then your doctor may advise that you wait until after pregnancy to have your COVID-19 vaccine. If you are breastfeeding or planning to get pregnant, you can receive COVID-19 …
COVID-19 vaccines work by training your body to recognise and fight the virus that causes COVID-19. It doesn’t mean you can’t get COVID-19, but it reduces how sick you would get from the virus. You cannot get COVID-19 from having the vaccines. The COVID-19 vaccines will not change your genes or your DNA in any …
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) assesses all COVID-19 vaccines for quality, safety and effectiveness. In Australia, all vaccines go through this process before they can be used. COVID-19 vaccines prevent serious illness and death and help to protect you, your family, and your community. Visit the ‘Is it true’ page on health.gov.au to get the …
Free, safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines will help protect our community from COVID-19. A staged rollout of the vaccines will commence in February 2021. The Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine will be managed through 30 to 50 key hospitals across urban, regional and rural Australia. Provisional approval of the University of Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is currently expected …
We pay our respects to Wajarri Elders past and present and thank the community for allowing us to serve them as directors of Winja Wajarri Barna Limited. We are excited by the opportunity to deliver the programs set out in this website and to act as good custodians of Wajarri community assets. As Directors we aim to achieve the highest standards of governance and intend to work with our member, Meenangu Wajarri Aboriginal Corporation, to deliver on our joint mission “Engaging, empowering and investing in Wajarri Yamatji Peoples’ future.”
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