An autumn booster of the COVID 19 vaccine will be offered to the following groups to extend their protection against getting seriously ill:
residents and staff in older adult care homes frontline health and social care workers everyone aged 50 and over people aged 5-49 in a clinical risk group, including pregnant women household contacts of immunosuppressed people aged 5-49 unpaid carers aged 16-49
This follows the latest advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).