Updated: 1:23, 18 Jul 2021
BRIT kids will only get Covid jabs if they’re vulnerable as ministers shun plans for mass vaccinations amid scientists’ fears, it has been reported.
Ministers are said to be preparing to offer doses to vulnerable 12 to 15-year-olds and those about to turn 18.
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There s no plan to inoculate every child against CovidCredit: PA
The jabs will also be offered to kids aged between 12 and 15 who live with adults who are immunosuppressed or whose health is otherwise at risk from the coronavirus, the Telegraph reports.
They will be offered the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
Professor Chris Whitty has said that officials are looking into whether youngsters should get the jab - but the big priority is getting all over-18s inoculated first.
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