Eligible groups for autumn COVID-19 vaccination announced
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has announced its advice to Government for the COVID-19 vaccine programme in autumn this year.
Similar to previous spring and autumn campaigns, the Committee’s advice is to offer the vaccine to those at high risk of serious disease and who are therefore most likely to benefit from vaccination.
Vaccination continues to help protect against severe illness, hospitalisations and deaths arising from COVID-19.
JCVI advises the following groups be offered a COVID-19 vaccine this autumn:
- adults aged 65 years and over
- residents in a care home for older adults
- individuals aged 6 months to 64 years in a clinical risk group
In addition, the government has decided to continue to offer vaccination to frontline health and social care staff, as well as staff working in care homes for older people in the autumn 2024 programme.
The vaccine should usually be offered no earlier than around 6 months after the last vaccine dose.
Source: Gov.uk
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