Ovid The general population does not need a booster shot of the vaccine. It should be reserved for the elderly and people with weakened immune systems. They are one of the creators of vaccines. Oxford AstraZeneca Jab said.
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Professor Sara Gilbert said that for most people, immunity is “long-lasting” and suggested that countries with low vaccination rates should be provided with additional doses.
Sanitation Committee Sajid Javid Said that he expects the booster program to begin in late September, but is still waiting for experts to advise on the scale of any campaign to provide people with additional vaccines.
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (JCVI) has not yet provided advice to ministers.
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Professor Pollard said the UK has a “moral” obligation to help other countries get vaccinated
Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, said that although there is no “rapid” evolution of new coronavirus variants, the UK has a “moral” obligation to help other countries in the world get vaccinated.
“We have not seen the rapid evolution of new variants that threaten the world today, but this is likely to happen in the future, and it is as likely to appear in the vaccinated population as it is in the unvaccinated population,” he told The BBC’s Today program.
“The key for them to vaccinate people in other countries is because they need to be protected.
“From our moral point of view, there is such a big risk, trade is risky, economy is risky, but these are friends and colleagues we need to protect, and we lose them every day.”
Sir Andrew Pollard: The world needs to “open the tap” to fight the coronavirus internationally
Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, said that the world needs to “open the tap” to fight the “fire” of the coronavirus internationally.
He said on the BBC’s Today program: “At this moment, fires around the world are raging, and the health systems of many countries are under tremendous pressure.”
“At the G7 meeting in early June, there was a lot of funding and vaccine commitments.
“A lot of money has already flowed out, so Covax is now in a very good position to start buying fire hoses for the fire.
“What we really need is to turn on the tap and send water to those countries. We need to do that today.”
