UK sets out pandemic plan for fall and winter; booster shots for over 50s to begin next week
Health Secretary Sajid Javid said he had accepted this recommendation from the JCVI, and therefore the National Health Service in England expects to start next week. Wales’ health minister has accepted JCVI’s advice on booster vaccines.
Health and care policy is devolved across the U.K., with different provisions made in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland .
Separately, all children aged 12 to fifteen years old in England are going to be offered one dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech shot. The move, which follows within the footsteps of the many other countries, is meant to assist reduce disruption to education.
Speaking on Tuesday afternoon at a press conference from Downing Street, Prime Minister Boris Johnson compared the present situation to an equivalent period a year earlier.
In one way, “...