Professor Anthony Harnden, Vice Chairman of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (JCVI), told BBC breakfast Saturday: “Obviously, this year’s influenza immunization is very important, and the reason why it is so important is because our influenza epidemic level was very low last winter.
“So we do know when the influenza level was low in the previous year. Usually we will get a high infection rate in the second year, so it is very likely that we will have a large number of influenza cases this year.”
He added: “The delay is worrying, but hopefully this will be corrected soon and we will continue with general practice, which we always do.”
Shadow minister of health Jon Ashworth Said: “The general practitioner was at a loss. First of all, he was forced to cancel the blood test due to a shortage of bottles. Now we understand that the flu vaccine will be postponed.
“For the United States, this is a crisis-ridden summer National Health Service Pay the price with the patient. With the coming of winter and the huge risk of a return of the flu, ministers must urgently control it. “
A Seqirus spokeswoman said: “Seqirus provides flu vaccines to all general practitioner clinics in England and Wales.
“Due to the unforeseen challenges associated with road freight delays, we have notified all customers that their planned vaccine delivery is delayed by up to one to two weeks.
“Seqirus is working to resolve the delays to allow customers to reschedule their flu vaccination clinics.”
