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Annual booster Covid jabs likely for elderly and vulnerable, JCVI expert says

It is a "strong possibility" that booster Covid-19 vaccines will be given every autumn alongside flu jabs for people considered most at risk, a member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has said.

Professor Adam Finn was asked by BBC Breakfast if older and vulnerable people can expect an annual Covid-19 jab along with the existing yearly flu vaccine.

He said: “It’s hard to be absolutely sure about that, but the direction of discussion at the moment is certainly a booster campaign in the autumn, directed probably at the people who… we think are most at risk.

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