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The husband of an Australian actress who suffered a stroke after having a COVID-19 vaccination remains fiercely supportive of the jab and is making great progress in her recovery after facing a fight for her life.

Melle Stewart, 40, is learning to walk and talk again following a dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine.

She had to have part of her brain removed and spent weeks in intensive care on a ventilator in hospital - but is now in rehabilitation and improving well, her husband said.

Actor Ben Lewis said that while his wife almost died from the more-than-one-in-a-million rare complication, she wants everyone to get vaccinated if they haven't already.

"Obviously if you're gonna win a lottery you'd prefer it was the other one," he told 9news.com.au from London, where the couple live.

"She really wants people to know that she still supports vaccination.