The NHS England documents are believed to say that parental consent will be needed to vaccinate five to 11-year-olds once plans are approved by regulators.
SAGE member Professor John Edwards, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said jabs for children aged five to 11 should be brought in as soon as possible .
Now with Florida and Illinois having sequenced cases of the Omicron COVID-19 variant, the number of U.S. states that have recorded cases of the new strain has increased to 20.
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