Guidance

COVID-19 vaccination: what to expect after vaccination

Information for people who have had their first COVID-19 vaccination.

• From: UK Health Security Agency
• Published: 7 December 2020
• Last updated: 16 September 2021 — See all updates

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What to expect after your COVID-19 vaccination

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What to expect after your COVID-19 vaccination leaflet (English print version 6)

Ref: PHE gateway number 2021565 PDF, 366KB, 8 pages

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Details

This leaflet is intended for healthcare practitioners to give to individuals who are being immunised.

Version 6 of this leaflet is available to order now using product code: COV2021V6EN

Copies of version 4 of the Braille and large print leaflets are available to order.

An easy-read version of this leaflet is available for people with a learning disability and their carers.

Version 4 of this leaflet is available to order or download in the following languages:

Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese, Estonian, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Kurdish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Panjabi, Polish, Portuguese Brazilian, Russian, Twi, Ukrainian and Urdu.

British Sign Language videos are available to view.

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Published 7 December 2020
Last updated 16 September 2021 + show all updates

1. 16 September 2021

   Added version 6.

2. 2 July 2021

   Updated Details section as version 5 of the leaflet is now available to order.

3. 15 June 2021

   Updated advice about side effects and added revised version 5 of the English leaflet.

4. 11 June 2021

   Updated advice about side effects and added version 5 of the English leaflet.

5. 18 May 2021

   Updated to reflect translations are available to order.

6. 5 May 2021

   Added links to revised braille, large print and translate leaflets.

7. 7 April 2021

   Added revised English leaflet (v4).

8. 26 March 2021

   Added updated English leaflet.

9. 1 March 2021

   Added Ukrainian and French leaflets, and a link to the easy-read leaflet.

10. 25 January 2021

    Added Kurdish and Urdu leaflets.

11. 20 January 2021

    Added Chinese, Farsi, Nepali and Somali leaflets.

12. 18 January 2021

    Added Arabic, Bengali, Gujarati and Punjabi leaflets.

13. 15 January 2021

    Added Hindi leaflet.

14. 14 January 2021

    Added Albanian and Tagalog leaflets.

15. 13 January 2021

    Added Spanish and Romanian leaflets and product code for the braille leaflet.

16. 10 January 2021

    Added Polish version and revised large print English leaflet.

17. 8 January 2021

    Added Turkish version.

18. 31 December 2020

    Updated standard leaflet, revised content in the HTML document, and added a link to the BSL video.

19. 22 December 2020

    Added a large print version of the leaflet and its product code.

20. 7 December 2020

    First published.