UK health secretary "confident" booster jab programme will start this month

UK’s health secretary Sajid Javid 

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# 08 September 2021 13:17 (UTC +04:00)

On Sky News, Kay Burley has been interviewing the UK’s health secretary Sajid Javid about vaccines for children, an October firebreak and the booster jab programme, APA reports.

Here’s what he said on the latter:

"We’ve received interim advice on boosters and that was a few weeks ago and I published it. That was clear that there should be some kind of booster programme. In terms of that endeavour of who actually gets it, we’re waiting for final advice which could come in the next few days from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).

I need to see that advice because they rightly are looking at studies that they’ve done to look at if, it should be mixing vaccines for example, if should people get the same vaccine. They’re also looking at whether it makes sense to co-administer everyone with a flu jab, as well. So that work is almost done, and based on the timeline that they’ve given us, I am confident that we can start the booster programme this month."

Here is that JCVI interim advice by the way, which was published in June.

"The JCVI’s interim advice is that any potential Covid-19 booster programme should be offered in 2 stages from September, starting with those most at risk from serious disease. This includes care home residents, people aged over 70, frontline health and social care workers, clinically extremely vulnerable adults and those who are immunosuppressed."

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