‘Cluster’ of Australians suffering anaphylactic shock after COVID vaccine not unexpected

Australians can be confident a “cluster” of people reporting an allergic reaction to the coronavirus vaccine is an outlier, the country’s top doctor says.

The head of the government’s vaccine taskforce, Brendan Murphy, told reporters on Wednesday the report wasn’t unexpected.

Queensland officials on Wednesday reported there had been four instances of anaphylaxis in COVID-19 vaccine recipients in the past 48 hours.

The recipients received the AstraZeneca vaccine in Ipswich,