two things. at the age range for who gets their booster shot, they are looking at lowering that so more people get into the booster programme. they are also looking at the gap between people s second dose and when they get that booster, which they could shrink down, which means more people will get there booster shot more quickly. separately, scientists are also looking at how effective the existing vaccines are against the new variant, as the health and minister ed aga explained. br; minister ed aga explained. by proportionate measures, they are balanced proportionate measures, they are balanced measures which hopefully will buy balanced measures which hopefully will buy us time by slowing down the seeding will buy us time by slowing down the seeding and the spreading of this new variant to give our scientists time new variant to give our scientists time to new variant to give our scientists time to understand exactly how it behaves, time to understand exactly how it behaves