Covid-19 booster jab extended to 40s

This means that the strengthening plan will be expanded to include healthy people between 40 and 49 years of age.

JVCI also recommends that young people aged 16 to 17 who are not at high risk of Covid-19 should be given a second dose of Covid-19 vaccine.

Professor Wei Shen Lim of JVCI and Dr. June Raine of the drug regulatory agency also joined him.

Professor Wei Shen Lim said: “Inoculation of booster vaccines among more vulnerable adults and a second dose of vaccine among teenagers between the ages of 16 and 17 is an important way to improve our protection against COVID-19 infection and serious diseases.

“These vaccinations will also help extend our protection to 2022.

“If you qualify, please make sure to get these vaccines and protect yourself as we enter the winter.”

It comes from the co-chair of the Conservative Party Oliver Dawden Urge people to get their Booster jab If they want to avoid the restrictions during the Christmas period, “when the call comes.”

He said: “If you get a booster when the call comes, it is our biggest defense wall against the new crown virus.

“I believe that if we stick to the end, people will take boosters when asked, this vaccine wall will be able to hold up, and we can have a decent Christmas this year.”

Before Monday’s announcement, people 50 and older, people living and working in nursing homes, frontline health and social care workers, and young people at risk were eligible for booster injections six months after the second injection.