VULNERABLE Brits are set to get more Covid boosters in spring and next winter – but jabs for low-risk people will be scrapped this year.
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation today said an autumn 2023 booster rollout should go ahead for high-risk people.
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And a smaller group of those in the most danger from Covid should get spring jabs, too.
But vaccines for healthy people will be wound down as Britain moves on from Covid.
Booster jabs will no longer be available to healthy under-50s from February 12.
Offers of first and second doses will also be withdrawn later this year.
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A health source said: “Everyone will need to get a booster by 12th February if they want one.”
The JCVI said “emergency surge vaccines” will be held on standby in case of a deadly new variant.
Professor Wei Shen Lim, chair of Covid jabs at the JCVI, said: “The vaccination programme continues to reduce severe disease across the population, while helping to protect the NHS.
“That is why we have advised planning for further booster vaccines for persons at higher risk of serious illness through an autumn booster programme later this year.
“We will very shortly also provide final advice on a spring booster programme for those at greatest risk.”