UK Rolls Out Winter Top-Up Vaccines Amid New Covid Variant Fears
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National Health Service said residents of older adult care homes and housebound people will receive their Covid and flu vaccinations from this week.
The UK health authorities began rolling out their winter vaccine schedule for the most medically vulnerable on Monday, brought forward from a planned early October rollout amid concerns around the new COVID variant BA.2.86.
The National Health Service (NHS) said residents of older adult care homes and people who are housebound will begin receiving their COVID and flu vaccinations from this week and other high risk groups will begin to be invited to get their “top up protection” ahead of winter from next week.
While the variant, BA.2.86, has not been classified as a "variant of concern" by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), it is being monitored closely due to its proclivity to mutate.
