UK announces COVID booster shot plan for older, vulnerable groups
Al Jazeera
Government unveils plans to rely on vaccines to contain the spread of the virus rather than impose further lockdowns.
The United Kingdom has announced a COVID-19 vaccine booster programme for older and more vulnerable people soon as Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government relies on vaccines rather than further lockdowns to navigate a “bumpy” winter.
“We’re now motoring ahead with the booster programme … so that’s going to mean we’re going to be building even higher walls of immunisation of vaccine protection in this country,” Johnson told a news conference on Tuesday.
“When you’ve got a large proportion of the country, as we have now, with immunity, then smaller changes can make a bigger difference, and give us the confidence that we don’t need to go back to the lockdowns of the past.”