Covid-19 jabs will be offered to all children in the UK aged between 12 and 15 as early as next week, as concerns mount over a fresh wave of infections in schools in the autumn.
The UK’s four Chief Medical Officers concluded that universal vaccination was necessary on mental health grounds and to avoid educational disruption. The vaccines will be offered to children through the school immunisation programme.
Chris Whitty, the chief medical officer for England, and his counterparts in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales confirmed the decision on Monday in a letter to the health secretaries of the four nations of the UK.
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