The Min­istry of Health has not yet re­ceived any re­ports from women on ad­verse re­ac­tions re­lat­ed to their men­stru­al cy­cle af­ter tak­ing the COVID-19 vac­cine.

Re­spond­ing to a re­porter's ques­tion at yes­ter­day's Min­istry of Health's me­dia con­fer­ence Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Roshan Paras­ram said "I have not re­ceived my­self as yet re­ports of any ad­verse re­ac­tions re­lat­ed to changes in the women's men­stru­al cy­cle.

"We will have (Di­rec­tor of Women’s Health) Dr Adesh Sir­jus­ingh pos­si­bly next week dur­ing the press con­fer­ence to have a dis­cus­sion on pos­si­ble side-ef­fects as it re­lates to changes in the women's men­stru­al cy­cle re­lat­ed to vac­ci­na­tion on the whole."

He urged the women who had ex­pe­ri­enced neg­a­tive side ef­fects af­ter tak­ing the COVID-19 vac­cine to vis­it their doc­tor for an as­sess­ment.