The JCVI is reconsidering its decision just two weeks after it recommended against routine vaccination of children. Photograph: Sebastian Barros/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock
The JCVI is reconsidering its decision just two weeks after it recommended against routine vaccination of children. Photograph: Sebastian Barros/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock
Wed 4 Aug 2021 03.32 EDT
Last modified on Wed 4 Aug 2021 04.16 EDT
Covid vaccines are expected to be offered to children in the UK aged 16 and 17, in line with many other countries, after a minister confirmed government experts will update their advice “imminently”.
Michelle Donelan, the universities minister, said the government was expecting an announcement from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) on widening access to the coronavirus vaccine to more teenagers.
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4 AUGUST 2021
Fully vaccinated people in England were one-third as likely to test positive for COVID-19, according to an ongoing survey of the population released on Wednesday.
The latest findings, from a long-running study by scientists at Imperial College London and market research company Ipsos MORI, were based on 98,233 swabs taken between June 24 and July 12.
They showed one in 160 people infected with coronavirus, with a prevalence rate of 1.21 percent for unvaccinated respondents and 0.40 percent for those fully jabbed.
The study also found double-vaccinated people may be less likely to pass on the virus to others than those who have not received a vaccine.
04 August 2021
New research has found that double vaccinated people were three times less likely than unvaccinated people to test positive for the coronavirus.
These results from the Imperial-led REACT-1 study, a major coronavirus monitoring programme, are based on swab tests taken by almost 100,000 people in England between 24 June and 12 July. During this period, 0.63% of people were infected, or 1 in 158. This represents a 4-fold rise compared with the study’s previous report, when 0.15% or 1 in 670 had the virus as of 7 June. These findings confirm our previous data showing that both doses of a vaccine offer good protection against getting infected. Prof Paul Elliott School of Public Health, Imperial
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COVID-19: Decision to offer more than a million teenagers aged 16 and 17 coronavirus vaccines expected imminently , says minister
The government is expected to announce the offering of a coronavirus vaccine to some 1.4 million teenagers imminently , a minister has confirmed.
Speaking to Kay Burley on Sky News, universities minister Michelle Donelan said Number 10 was awaiting advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which is assessing whether all 16 and 17-year-olds should receive the jab, and that an announcement would be made shortly .
Ms Donelan did not answer whether parental consent may be required for teenagers to accept the offer of vaccine.