JCVI fails to recommend Covid-19 vaccines for healthy 12-15-year-olds

JCVI fails to recommend Covid-19 vaccines for healthy 12-15-year-olds

Covid-19 vaccines for healthy children aged 12-15 are not being recommended by the Government's group of advisers.

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has announced that it is widening the so-far limited rollout to more children in this age bracket who have underlying health conditions.

But it is not recommending mass vaccination of children aged between 12 and 15.

The programme is being extended from what had been considered the most at-risk children, to include children with chronic major heart, lung, kidney, liver and neurological conditions.

Read more on this story: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/coronavirus-news-covid-third-vaccine-jab-schools-cases-tests/

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