Samuel Lovett Sat, 19 February 2022, 7:30 am (AFP via Getty Images) (AFP via Getty Images)
The offer of a second Covidbooster jab for the most vulnerable groups in the UK is expected to be made in the coming weeks, The Independent understands.
A decision has already been reached by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), but the full details of its recommendation have yet to be passed to ministers, according to a Whitehall source.
Since the end of last year, the JCVI has been reviewing the “timing and value” of a second booster jab for the UK’s immunocompromised people, amid mounting evidence that suggests protection from a first booster wanes in a matter of months for the general population.
The rollout of a second booster for these groups “will see them to through the summer, depending when they started” their vaccination course, the source said.
An estimated 500,000 people in Britain are considered severely immunosuppressed.
The majority of these have received four vaccine jabs to date: three primary doses and one booster. A second booster, as planned by the JCVI, will bring their total to five.
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