Covid booster vaccine plan to come in a few weeks - UK health Secretary Matt Hancock

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Plans for a Covid booster jab programme in the autumn will be set out in the next few weeks, Matt Hancock has said.

The health secretary said ministers were waiting for results from trials of different combinations of vaccines.

"In the next few weeks, when we get the clinical data through on what's the most effective combinations to have… then we'll set out all the details for the booster programme for the autumn."

Among the ongoing trials is the UK's Cov-Boost trial, which is testing different combinations of third doses across England.

They also said combining the Covid and flu vaccine rollouts - for example a Covid jab in one arm and a flu jab in the other - needed to be explored, but that would make the rollout more complex.

 

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