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UK health chiefs crank up plans for spring AND autumn Covid vaccine roll-outs

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John Furner
John Furnerhttps://dailyobserver.uk
Experienced multimedia journalist with a background in investigative reporting. Expert in interviewing, reporting, fact-checking, and working on a deadline. Excel at cinematic storytelling and sourcing images, sound bites, and video for multimedia publication. Work well with photographers and videographers when not shooting his own stories, and love to collaborate on large, in-depth features.

The Daily Observer London Desk: Reporter- John Furner

Another round of Covid booster vaccines should be dished out this autumn, No10’s scientific advisers said today.

Health bosses also called for extra jabs in the spring for the most at-risk Brits, which would likely include the elderly and immunosuppressed.

It would be the seventh and eighth vaccine offer for tens of thousands of society’s most vulnerable.

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 autumn booster jab

Latest government data shows that 64.5 per cent of those aged 50 and over have received their autumn booster 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

John Furner
John Furnerhttps://dailyobserver.uk
Experienced multimedia journalist with a background in investigative reporting. Expert in interviewing, reporting, fact-checking, and working on a deadline. Excel at cinematic storytelling and sourcing images, sound bites, and video for multimedia publication. Work well with photographers and videographers when not shooting his own stories, and love to collaborate on large, in-depth features.

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John Furner
John Furnerhttps://dailyobserver.uk
Experienced multimedia journalist with a background in investigative reporting. Expert in interviewing, reporting, fact-checking, and working on a deadline. Excel at cinematic storytelling and sourcing images, sound bites, and video for multimedia publication. Work well with photographers and videographers when not shooting his own stories, and love to collaborate on large, in-depth features.