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Covid booster jabs to be offered to over 40s

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Covid-19 booster jabs will be offered to healthy 40 to 49-year-olds, health officials have announced. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) said all adults over the age of 40 should be offered a booster, six months after their second dose.

People should be offered the Pfizer or Moderna jab as a booster, irrespective of which vaccine they had initially. So far, booster jabs have only been available for people aged 50 and over, health and social care workers or people aged 16 and over with certain health conditions. READ MORE: All the Greater Manchester walk-in clinics where you can get a Covid-19 booster To date, some 12.6 million people have had a third Covid-19 jab.

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