Find out about COVID-19 vaccine booster doses, which are offered seasonally, including who is eligible and how to get them.

August 15, 2022 - All of the available boosters provide good protection against severe illness from coronavirus (COVID-19).

January 27, 2023 - In November 2021, JCVI advised boosters for healthy adults aged 40 to 49 years due to the epidemiology at the time. With the emergence of the Omicron variant in late November 2021, the offer was extended to healthy individuals aged 16 to 39 years as part of an emergency surge response (see JCVI update on advice for COVID-19 vaccination of children and young people and UK ...

September 14, 2021 - Millions of the UK’s most vulnerable are to be offered a COVID-19 booster vaccine from next week.

November 7, 2021 - The National Booking Service will be updated tomorrow (Monday 8 November 2021) to allow those eligible for a booster vaccine – people over 50 and those most at risk of COVID-19 – to pre-book their jab 5 months after their second dose.

March 24, 2022 - Members of staff prepare to administer ... 11, 2021. Jacob King/Pool via REUTERS/ Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab · LONDON, March 24 (Reuters) - A booster dose of vaccine against COVID-19 continues to provide robust protection against hospitalisation for older people nearly four months after getting the third dose, new data from the UK's Health Security ...

July 4, 2022 - Tweaked vaccines to tackle Omicron are in trials as JCVI finalises advice for vulnerable groups

December 22, 2021 - On 29 Nov 2021, JCVI provided advice on immediate response measures within the COVID-19 programme to the emerging threat from the Omicron variant. A key purpose of those measures is the acceleration of the booster programme in order to mitigate any potential loss in the level of vaccine-induced ...

February 21, 2022 - Another half a million people who ... booster. ... The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) said vaccinating these groups was a "precautionary" move and did not mean there was any current danger to their health. But because people in these groups are at higher risk from Covid-19, have weaker immune systems than other people and were last vaccinated in September or October 2021, their protection ...

November 11, 2021 - 11.4 million people in the UK have now received a COVID-19 booster vaccine or third jab.

November 1, 2023 - Coronavirus large scale vaccination sites in Oxford, Aylesbury and Reading

January 2, 2022 - In Tennessee, whose 51 percent ... to get a booster shot have not done so as of Friday, the Nashville Tennessean reported. It quoted Dr. Alex Jahangir, head of the Nashville Covid-19 task force: “This virus continues to evolve. And our response needs to continue to evolve.” ... Dec. 22, 2021...

December 10, 2021 - Booster programme is being accelerated, with people over 40 now able to get their jab after 3 months.

This study is trying to find out ... as a booster vaccination, depending on which vaccine was used to provide the initial prime-boost course. We will be enrolling men and women over the age of 30 who received their initial prime-boost course of vaccination against COVID-19 in December 2020, January or February 2021, and who have ...

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August 18, 2023 - Health officials reiterate support for private provision as lower age limit for NHS booster vaccines raised to 65

October 29, 2021 - Clinical guidance has been updated to allow COVID-19 boosters to be given earlier to those at highest risk where this makes operational sense.

Everyone aged 65 and over is now eligible for their coronavirus autumn booster vaccine. Find out more about the vaccine, as well as other coronavirus treatments, from Age UK.

June 10, 2022 - The boosters would be for more vulnerable adults, alongside frontline social care and health workers, in order to maintain their protection over the winter against severe COVID-19. As in autumn 2021, the primary objective of the 2022 autumn booster programme will be to increase population immunity ...

September 3, 2022 - Where substantial delays might ... UK-approved booster vaccine offered, such as a monovalent Original ‘wild-type’ mRNA vaccine. Individuals offered vaccination should be advised that timely boosting is desirable to increase protection over the winter, and therefore to accept whichever booster vaccine is offered. When there are constraints to vaccine supply or deployment, priority for vaccination should be given to those at higher individual clinical risk of severe COVID-19, such as ...