You can still have a vaccine if you have a mild fever or upper airway infection, like a cold.
If you have any symptoms of COVID-19 infection, you should wait for 4 weeks after your symptoms started before booking a vaccine.
The main symptoms of coronavirus are:
- a high temperature – this means you feel hot to touch on your chest or back (you do not need to measure your temperature)
- a new, continuous cough – this means coughing a lot for more than an hour, or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours (if you usually have a cough, it may be worse than usual)
- a loss or change to your sense of smell or taste – this means you’ve noticed you cannot smell or taste anything, or things smell or taste different to normal
If you tested positive for COVID-19 but have no symptoms, you should wait for 4 weeks after your positive test result before booking a vaccine.