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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Ben Glaze

Covid booster jabs will stop NHS being overwhelmed this winter, vaccines chief claims

Coronavirus booster jabs will help prevent the NHS being overwhelmed this winter, a vaccine chief claimed on Monday.

Top-up doses should cut the numbers of patients who are admitted to hospital, according to Oxford Vaccine Group director Professor Sir Andrew Pollard.

It comes after the Government said the autumn booster programme, which starts next week, “aims to increase immunity in those at higher risk of severe Covid-19 during winter”.

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