Care home residents and those who are housebound in England will be offered both vaccines this week, with the NHS inviting more eligible people to come forward from next Monday.
An outbreak of Pirola at a care home in Norfolk has taken the UK s cases of the new Covid variant up to 36, according to a new report that warns it could be a sign BA.2.86 can spread easily indoors.
Early results from a US lab found those who had previously been infected with Covid or had a jab had a similar level of immunity to other fellow Omicron Covid variants.