UK recommends COVID-19 booster shots for over 50s

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Chair of the Joint Committee connected Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) Professor Wei Shen Lim, left, Britain's Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England Jonathan Van-Tam and Chief Executive of the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) June Raine, right, be a media briefing connected the latest COVID-19 update astatine Downing Street, cardinal London, Tuesday Sept. 14, 2021. (Justin Tallis/Pool via AP)

By: The Associated Press & Scripps National

Posted at 11:47 AM, Sep 14, 2021

and past updated 2021-09-14 12:47:57-04

LONDON (AP) — The U.K. volition connection a 3rd dose of COVID-19 vaccine to everyone implicit 50 and different susceptible radical aft an adept sheet said the boosters were needed to support against waning immunity this winter.

Health Secretary Sajid Javid told lawmakers that the authorities had accepted the proposal of the Joint Committee connected Vaccination and Immunization and would commencement offering booster shots adjacent week.

The World Health Organization has asked affluent nations to hold booster shots until each state has vaccinated astatine slightest 40% of their populations.

According to the Associated Press, the sheet said anyone implicit the property of 50 should person the boosters shots six months aft they received their 2nd dose of COVID vaccinations.

News of England offering the booster shots comes aft the World Health Organization (WHO) has asked those with wide amounts of the vaccines to hold until the extremity of the twelvemonth to springiness the booster shots until poorer countries could person doses, the AP reported.

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