Winter Covid vaccines axed for under-65s

Covid vaccines volition not beryllium offered routinely to steadfast under-65s this winter, pursuing proposal from UK immunisation experts.

Last autumn, each over-50s were invited for a booster jab to support them during the wintertime months.

But lone the over-65s should get the enactment this year, the Joint Committee connected Vaccination and Immunisation said.

Younger radical with wellness problems, on with a fig of different circumstantial groups, should stay eligible.

Committee seat Professor Wei Shen Lim said the determination was astir focusing connected those astatine top hazard of getting earnestly ill: "These persons volition payment the astir from a booster vaccination.

"It is important that everyone who is eligible takes up a booster this autumn - helping to forestall them from hospitalisations and deaths arising from the microorganism implicit the wintertime months."

It had antecedently been announced that the property cut-off for regular eligibility of the flu jab was besides to beryllium acceptable astatine 65, aft that excessively was reduced to 50 during the pandemic.

The afloat database of those eligible for a Covid vaccine are:

England's Health Secretary, Steve Barclay, said helium had accepted the advice, and NHS England would soon corroborate details of the rollout, which aims to beryllium finished by December.

"I would impulse anyone invited to travel guardant arsenic soon arsenic possible."

The different UK nations are expected to travel suit.