Sign up for the latest from M.E.N. political editor Jennifer Williams People could get Covid-19 vaccine booster shots to protect them against new coronavirus variants as soon as September.
The government's vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said the first booster doses would go to the top four priority groups, which include everyone over 70, care home staff, NHS workers and the clinically extremely vulnerable.
The minister told the Telegraph that this would likely begin in September. The government is expecting up to eight different jabs to be available by the autumn, including one protecting against three different variants in a single dose, the paper reports.
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