UK to offer Covid booster vaccines to people over 50, starting next week

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Around 30 million people will be eligible for the boosters, which aim to protect against waning immunity among people who have had two vaccine doses.

, which is based on a different technology, will be offered to anyone who can’t receive an mRNA vaccine for clinical reasons.World Health Organization

England's chief medical officer, Chris Whitty, said it's hugely important that developing countries get the jabs they need but pointed to the difficulties in transporting the Pfizer vaccine, which has a relatively short shelf-life and needs to be kept at super-chilled temperatures. “One of the most depressing things for doctors, including myself, is talking to people who have just chosen not to get vaccinated because it wasn’t convenient at that particular moment. And you see them being wheeled down to intensive care, and you know this was a very serious problem as a result of them not being vaccinated," he said.

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