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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Health
Ellie Ng

Children and pregnant women in England to start receiving flu vaccinations

Children and pregnant women will start receiving flu vaccinations from Monday (Jane Barlow/PA) - (PA Wire)

Children and pregnant women in England will start receiving flu vaccinations from Monday – with school immunisation teams in some areas offering jabs to two to three-year-olds in nurseries for the first time, the NHS has said.

Expectant mothers and all children aged between two and 16 years are eligible for the vaccine in the rollout ahead of winter, with the age range expanding for those in clinical risk groups to between six months and 18 years.

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