Teachers could be 'bumped up' the priority list for vaccinations in a bid to reopen schools, a vaccine committee member has said.
Professor Adam Finn of the Joint Committee on Vaccination & Immunisation (JCVI), which makes recommendations to the government on the priority list, said a new list would begin to be discussed on Thursday.
And he said the body were under orders to come up with a new plan by the middle of February. He told Sky News: “Absolutely that’s the next phase of the programme and JCVI will be discussing over the coming month ‘phase two’ if you like, of who will be prioritised next.” Professor Finn went on: “As you can appreciate these considerations start to be social values in a way, more than the criteria we normally use