UK health chiefs crank up plans for spring AND autumn Covid vaccine roll-outs trends now
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Another round of Covid booster jabs should be dished out this autumn, the Government's scientific advisers said today.
Health chiefs also called for those who are older and those who are immunosuppressed to receive an extra booster vaccine dose this spring.
It means millions of Britons will have had an eighth vaccine by next winter, if ministers accept the recommendations.
Another round of Covid booster jabs should be dished out this autumn, the Government's scientific advisers said today. Those who are older and those who are immunosuppressed should also receive an extra booster vaccine dose this spring, they advised
Latest government data shows that 64.5 per cent of those aged 50 and over have received their jab
The JCVI also advised today that an emergency surge vaccine response may be required if a new variant with 'clinically significant biological differences' compared to the Omicron variant emerges
Britain's historic inoculation campaign, which began in December 2020 — just nine months after Covid was declared a pandemic, has drastically blunted the threat of the virus and saved tens of thousands of lives.
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