Coronavirus: Vaccination
Commons · Question 3782 · Tabled 2 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 6 Sep 2024
Question
Asked by Daisy Cooper
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to extend the covid-19 booster vaccination this autumn to (a) unpaid and (b) young carers.
Answer
Answered by Andrew Gwynne, 6 Sep 2024
The primary aim of the autumn 2024 COVID-19 vaccination programme remains the prevention of severe illness, hospitalisations, and deaths, arising from COVID-19. On 2 August 2024 the Government accepted the advice of the independent Joint Committee on Vacc...