From September, UK will provide a third booster Covid shot

Recently, the WHO chief pleaded to provide vaccines for poor countries. Whereas developed nations are planning to give a ‘booster’ jab to their citizens. How fair this practice is? As new variants of the novel coronavirus emerge and the world faces yet another wave of COVID-19, the heads of the World Bank Group, the International Monetary Fund, the World Health Organization, and the World Trade Organization said on July 1, 2021, there is an urgent need to increase supplies of vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics for developing countries. This clearly depicts the philosophy of Brexit and how the UK considers itself superior and ahead of others as a nation.

According to British media sources, the UK government is planning to administer a booster shot to millions of vulnerable Britons who have already got two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine in September to guarantee that protection against new coronavirus variations is maintained before winter arrives.

The National Health Service (NHS) has been given permission to begin organising a Covid vaccination booster campaign. Ministers are working with the NHS to deliver the initiative quickly starting in September, according to Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid.

This is partially due to uncertainties about how long protection lasts after two doses of the vaccine, and partly due to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's desire to avoid a fourth lockdown in the winter, which has been targeted by the Conservative Party's hardline libertarian fringe.

According to the Express newspaper, the Department of Health said the plan was developed in response to advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) and will be implemented alongside the yearly flu vaccine deployment.

Boosters will assist sustain protection against COVID-19 and emerging variations for individuals most at risk, according to interim recommendations from the JCVI.

In the meanwhile, the JCVI recommends that from September 2021, the following persons receive a third Covid vaccine (along with a flu vaccine):

• Immunocompromised persons aged 16 and above,
• Inhabitants in care homes for the elderly who are clinically highly vulnerable
• All frontline health and social care personnel aged 70 and up

Following those groups will be:

• Adults aged 50 and above
• Individuals aged 16 to 49 who are in the flu or Covid-19 at-risk category
• Those living in the same house as immunocompromised persons

Younger adults will not receive a third dose because they will have already received their second dose in the summer, according to the JCVI, however, this decision will be reconsidered at a later date.