Africa Business Radio

Britain’s booster programme for COVID-19 vaccinations is to be expanded to younger people after scientists gave the green light. The UK government’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation says all healthy adults aged 40-49 should be offered a booster, six months after their second dose. The booster programme was limited to those aged 50 and over, and the clinically vulnerable. Some 12.6 million Britons have received the third jab. The JCVI says that 16 and 17-year-olds should now be offered a second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech jab.