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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Ian Sample Science editor

At least 25m people in UK to be offered COVID booster this autumn

A man receiving a Covid injection at a mobile vaccination service near Windsor earlier this year.
A man receiving a Covid vaccination near Windsor earlier this year. All those aged 65 and over will be eligible for the autumn booster. Photograph: Maureen McLean/Rex/Shutterstock

Millions of people in the UK will be offered further Covid booster shots in the autumn under draft guidance published by the government’s vaccine watchdog.

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation said another round of jabs would help protect the most vulnerable adults and frontline social care and health workers against severe Covid in the winter.

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