Ministers were today accused of failing to learn lessons from the pandemic after scrapping free flu vaccines for millions of over-50s and children. People aged 50 to 64 and pupils in years 7 to 11 will not be eligible for the jabs
The NHS has scrapped free flu jabs for millions of people aged over 50 as the organisation chose to reverse its policy to pre-pandemic conditions. Secondary school children aged 11 to 15 who were also eligible for the free shot won’t be
UK’s £5.6bn Covid jabs rollout was ‘good value’ for money, spending watchdog says The National Audit Office has further praised Britain’s vaccination programme Its success helped to ‘save lives and reduce serious illness and hospitalisation’ UK’s Covid vaccination programme has been widely
Vaccine adviser Professor Adam Finn raised the prospect of Covid jabs being dished out every winter It is a ‘strong possibility’ that Covid jabs will be rolled out every year alongside flu vaccines, a Government vaccine adviser suggested today. Over-75s and the
Vulnerable people and over-75s are set to receive their fourth covid jabs in the coming weeks as Boris Johnson is set to declare Thursday is Covid Freedom Day with all curbs – including legal self-isolation – to end in England. It has been six
Healthy children aged five to 11 in England will be offered two Covid jabs on a ‘non-urgent’ basis, it was announced today. No10’s vaccine advisers have said that the jabs will protect a ‘very small number of children from serious illness and hospitalisation’.
Britons under 40 will be offered an alternative to the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid jab after it was linked to potentially fatal blood clots, it was claimed last night. Advisers are understood to have written to Health Secretary Matt Hancock suggesting the move after
Pfizer and BioNTech will donate Covid jabs to inoculate athletes and officials taking part in Tokyo Olympics The firms will coordinate with national sporting bodies to provide vaccines Competitors and staff travelling to Japan will be offered a shot before Games There
Britain drops demand for 5m jabs from India amid concern about the state of the pandemic in the country, where Covid cases have soared past 20million The UK has dropped demands for India to release five million doses of vaccine Comes as
It was revealed nearly a third of adults in Britain have been inoculated (Image: Getty ) The toll registered a single fatality for only the third time in the crisis as it was revealed nearly a third of adults are inoculated fully.