UK Offers Booster Jabs To Over-40s; Second Dose To 16, 17-Year-Olds

Coronavirus Vaccine UK: UK said all healthy adults aged 40-49 should be offered a booster, six months after their second dose.

Britain's booster programme for Covid-19 vaccinations is to be expanded to younger people after scientists gave the green light on Monday.

The UK government's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) said all healthy adults aged 40-49 should be offered a booster, six months after their second dose.

Previously, the booster programme was limited to those aged 50 and over, and the clinically vulnerable. Some 12.6 million Britons have received a third jab.

The JCVI also said that 16 and 17-year-olds should now be offered a second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech jab.