UK health authorities said COVID-19 booster shots could restore protection against mild disease caused by the Omicron variant. Dr Susan Hopkins, chief medical adviser for the UK Health Security Agency, said vaccine effectiveness dropped significantly three months after the first two...
The UK will roll out a covid-19 booster vaccine at the beginning of autumn in order to protect the most vulnerable ahead of winter, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced. As part of this, the government's vaccines taskforce has secured an additional 60m doses ...
Health professional in goggles and mask administering COVID vaccine with needle in the shoulder of a sitting man. (CNW Group/Unifor) The national effort to immunise the UK population against COVID-19 has been phenomenal. In six months, more than 56 million vaccine doses hav...
It's because of this uncertainty that the panel of experts on the UK's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization recommend boosters still be offered in the autumn to people who aremost vulnerableto serious COVID infections, hospitalization and death. Details on the type of boostervaccinethat...
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Regulators in the UK have approved Moderna’s new Omicron-specific COVID-19 vaccine for an upcoming nation-wide autumn booster program. The approval makes the UK the first region in the world to move forward with an improved variant-targeting vaccine.
LONDON — The U.K. is being engulfed by a tidal wave of Covid cases, with a growing number linked to the omicron Covid variant, as it races to give booster shots to as many people as possible. Early studies show booster shotsrestore much of the vaccine protection lost through a natural...
Over-50s could be given a booster of the COVID-19 jab in the autumn to protect those most vulnerable from the virus.
Dr Mary Ramsay, director of public health programmes at the UK Health Security Agency, said: "The success of the booster vaccine programme so far means that COVID-19 cases and hospitalisations are still declining across the UK. "Vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family...
The British government said Friday that everyone 50 or over will be offered a fourth dose of coronavirus vaccine in the fall, lowering the age threshold from the previously announced 65.