Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation

People are being urged to take up the offer of a free Covid jab while they still have the chance (Photo: Getty Images)

Final calls from NHS for people to have Covid booster jab

Teenage virus jab figures

Over a quarter of teenagers now doubled jabbed

Triple jab numbers

Over 80,000 'triple jabbed' in South Tyneside

A file picture of a passerby in a mask as concerns are raised over the level of covid infection in the North East.

North East sees 'concerning' rise in Omicron, says expert

The JCVI recommended vaccinating vulnerable children in December (Photo: Getty Images)

How Covid vaccinations could be used to stop UK school disruption

The Moderna booster jab increases antibodies against Omicron 37-fold (Photo: Getty Images)

Moderna booster jab increases antibodies against Omicron 37-fold

Pregnant women should be given priority for the Covid vaccine (Photo: Getty Images)

Pregnant women given priority for Covid jabs due to ‘high risk’

All over 18s in England can now book a booster jab (Photo: Getty Images)

All over 18s can now book a Covid booster jab in England

The NHS booking service for booster jabs should be updated by 13 December (Photo: Getty Images)

Bookings for booster jabs to open for all ‘no later than December 13’

Face coverings are now compulsory again in shops and on public transport in England as part of new measures aiming to prevent the spread of the new Covid Omicron variant (Photo: ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Face masks now compulsory in shops and on public transport in England amid sprea...

Over-40s to be offered Covid booster jab as vaccination programme extended

The six month wait before the booster dose could be reduced to five (Photo: Getty Images)

Wait before booster jabs could be cut to 5 months to speed up rollout

Booster jab invites will be sent out to more than a million people in England from next week (Photo: Shutterstock)

Covid booster jab invites to be sent out to more than a million people in Englan...

Moderna found its Covid vaccine can wane in protection over time (Photo: Shutterstock)

Moderna backs Covid boosters after warning jab protection fades

Council leaders hope the vaccination of 12-15-year-olds will help to reduce Covid transmission in schools and prevent further disruption to education.

Would you encourage your child to get their Covid jab?

(Left to right) Professor Wei Shen Lim, chair of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England Professor Jonathan Van Tam and Dr June Raine, Chief Executive of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), during a media briefing in Downing Street, London, on coronavirus (Covid-19). Picture date: Tuesday September 14, 2021.

This is who will be getting the Covid-19 booster jabs when they begin next week

Booster vaccines will be offered to people aged 50 and over, those in care homes, and frontline health and social care workers from next week.

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The scientist behind the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine has said giving booster jabs to everyone is unnecessary, and instead calls for doses to be sent to countries in need (Photo: Shutterstock)

Covid booster jabs not needed for everyone, says Oxford vaccine creator

Health Secretary Sajid Javid has said children will get the final say on Covid vaccinations if a disagreement arises between them and their parents (Photo: Shutterstock)

Children will get final say on Covid vaccination if they disagree with parents, ...

Parents of children aged 12 to 15 will be asked to give their consent if the jabs are approved for this age group (Photo: Getty Images)

Children aged 12 to 15 will need parental consent to get Covid jab

Ministers have put the mass booster programme on hold to prioritise those with serious illnesses (Photo: Getty Images)

Full list of people eligible for a third Covid vaccine dose

People urged to get second Covid jab amid fears millions missed out

The vaccine doses will be delivered in the second half of next year (Photo: Getty Images)

UK secures 35m more Pfizer vaccine doses to ‘future-proof’ country from

The booster programme is still awaiting recommendation from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) (Photo: Getty Images)

Sajid Javid ‘confident’ Covid boosters can start from September despite no offic...

The Moderna Covid-19 vaccine has been given approval for use in children aged 12 to 17 (Photo: Getty Images)

Moderna Covid vaccine given green light for 12 to 17 year-olds in UK

the MHRA said there is no link between vaccines and stillbirth or miscarriage. (Photo: Shutterstock)

MHRA finds no evidence that Covid vaccines raise miscarriage risk

Sajid Javid said the jabs will start to be offered in September (Photo: Getty Images)

Covid booster jabs will rollout to priority groups next month - who is eligible?

Professor Wei Shen Lim, chair of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation. Photo Yui Mok/PA Wire

Covid vaccines to be offered to 16 and 17-year olds

Sixteen and 17-year olds are to be offered a first coronavirus jab in the coming weeks.

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The first dose alone provides 88 per cent protection against hospital admissions (Photo: Getty Images)

Single AstraZeneca dose prevents 70% of Covid cases - and protects against varia...

The gap between vaccine doses will be reduced to eight weeks (Photo: Getty Images)

Thousands urged to bring second Covid vaccine appointment forward ahead of lockd...

A Covid-19 jab

Vaccination experts 'not recommending' Covid jabs for under 18s, says minister

People aged 21 and 2 are being invited to book up for their Covid-19 vaccination.

How to book up for your Covid jab as 21 and 22-year-olds are called

Britain's medicines regulator said on June 4, 2021 the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is safe for adolescents aged 12 to 15. Picture: Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images.

Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use in 12 to 15-year-olds

People aged in their 30s have all been invited to book their Covid jabs as of today, the NHS has confirmed. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

How to book your Covid jab as everyone aged 30 and over get vaccination call

A third of people in England have now had two Covid-19 vaccine doses as figures reaches 15 million

A third of adults in England have now had two Covid-19 vaccine doses

Syringes containing the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines. (Photo by Paul Kane/Getty Images)

People under 40 to be offered alternative to AstraZeneca vaccine

People under the age of 40 are set to be offered an alternative to the AstraZeneca vaccine (Shutterstock)

Under-40s ‘to be offered AstraZeneca alternative’ over rare blood clot risk

Readers have had their say on whether children should be given a Covid-19 vaccination.

Your say on whether children should be vaccinated against Covid-19

Everyone in the first nine priority groups should have been offered a Covid jab by May (Photo: Getty Images)

Everyone aged 50 and over in England can now book a Covid vaccination - here’s h...

Over-50s should receive Covid vaccine ‘within the next few weeks’ - the rollout timeline explained (Photo: Shutterstock)

Over-50s should receive Covid vaccine ‘within the next few weeks’ - the rollout ...

Homeless people and rough sleepers will now be included in Group 6 (Photo: Getty Images)

Homeless people to be moved up priority list for Covid vaccine into Group 6

Phase 2 of the Covid vaccine rollout has been announced - here's who is next to ...

A further 1.7 million people were advised by the Government to shield earlier this month, with hundreds of thousand now invited to receive a Covid vaccination (Photo: Shutterstock)

600,000 more people who were shielding have been invited for a Covid vaccine

The vaccine rollout will proceed down the age bands of adults (Photo: Getty Images)

Frontline workers and BAME groups won’t be next in line for Covid vaccine - prio...

The COVID jab

900 urged to check COVID vaccine priority

All adults on GP learning disability register to be prioritised for Covid vaccin...

This is when everyone in the UK should be vaccinated - according to government’s...

Health Secretary Matt Hancock: Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images.

Health Secretary rejects calls for teachers to be given vaccine priority

All adults in the UK are to be offered a Covid-19 vaccine by July 31 under the Prime Minister’s accelerated plan.

All adults in UK to be offered Covid-19 vaccine by July 31

Here's when teachers in England could get a Covid vaccine - and if other key wor...

Only people with severe asthma will be prioritised for the Covid-19 vaccine (Photo: Shutterstock)

Only severe asthma sufferers to be prioritised for Covid vaccine - how to tell i...

Covid vaccine rollout proving effective as deaths of vulnerable drop - and hospital admissions fall by 60% (Photo: Shutterstock)

Covid vaccine rollout proving effective as deaths of vulnerable drop - and hospi...

The next five priority groups should be invited for their first vaccine dose by the end of April (Photo: Getty Images)

This is who will get Covid vaccine next as rollout moves into new phase

Clinically vulnerable people are now being offered the vaccine - this is who the...

This is when ‘at-risk’ priority group 6 could get the Covid vaccine

Key workers will get first priority for Covid vaccine after over-50s - including teachers and police (Photo by Andrew Milligan - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Key workers will get first priority for Covid vaccine after over-50s - including...