LEAFLETS questioning Covid-19 vaccines have been posted through letterboxes.

The printed pamphlet has been delivered to properties in Rottingdean and promotes the World Doctors Alliance – an anti-lockdown network of doctors, scientists, and health experts from across the world.

It encourages people to question the safety and efficiency of approved vaccines and contains several websites that support these arguments, including a site that promotes the views of conspiracy theorist Piers Corbyn.

The Argus: A leaflet calling people to question the Covid-19 vaccine has been delivered in RottingdeanA leaflet calling people to question the Covid-19 vaccine has been delivered in Rottingdean

Trish Ellis, who lives in Rottingdean, said leaflets were “littering” gardens in the area and were “disrespectful to all residents that have lost loved ones during the pandemic.”

The leaflet also makes a series of unsubstantiated claims about mask-wearing and the reliability of the coronavirus death statistics.

Last year, The European Commission Joint Research Centre debunked claims by the World Doctors Alliance that COVID19 is a type of flu and not a pandemic.

The Alliance claimed that only 98 Covid-19 related deaths had been reported in Ireland from the start of the pandemic to October 2020.

At that point Ireland had recorded more than 1,800 deaths, according to official statistics.

The commission debunked the alliance’s claims, stating that Covid-19 is not a type of flu as they are caused by different viruses belonging to different families.

Any Covid-19 vaccine that is approved must go through large-scale clinical trials and safety checks.

Nearly four in five people in England aged 50 and over are now fully vaccinated against Covid-19, figures suggest.

Reports of serious side-effects, such as allergic reactions, have been rare and no long-term complications have been noted.

An estimated 79.4 per cent of people in this age group had received two doses of a vaccine by May 30.

The government has set a target to offer both jabs to everyone aged 50 and over by June 21.