UK To Expand COVID-19 Booster Shots To Younger People

Britain’s booster programme for COVID-19 vaccinations is to be expanded to younger people after scientists gave the green light. <br />The UK government’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation says all healthy adults aged 40-49 should be offered a booster, six months after their second dose. <br />The booster programme was limited to those aged 50 and over, and the clinically vulnerable. Some 12.6 million Britons have received the third jab. <br />The JCVI says that 16 and 17-year-olds should now be offered a second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech jab.