Covid today Gb, third dose for over 40s. Johnson: “No new measures”

Third dose of covid vaccine for over 40s. And second dose for 16 and 17 year olds. Great Britain updates the lines of the vaccination campaign to stem the fourth wave of infections. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meanwhile, excludes new measures: “At the moment we do not see anything in the data that suggests that we must go to plan B, we are sticking to plan A”. Read also VACCINE, THIRD DOSE OVER 40 The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (Jcvi) has recommended the administration of a third dose of the coronavirus vaccine for those aged between 40 and 49. In addition, the same commission recommended a second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine for 16- and 17-year-olds. There are two updates we give today. The first is about recommending a booster dose for people aged 40 to 49 and the second is about a second dose of Pfizer vaccine for people aged 16 to 17. Both of these updates are important in maximizing our protection against this virus. And I strongly urge anyone eligible for these vaccines to get vaccinated, ” said Wei Shen Lim of the JVCI. I have full confidence in these decisions. The UK has sufficient stocks of vaccines to implement these changes, ” UK government advisor and UK Deputy Head of Health Jonathan Van-Tam said in a Downing Street briefing. JOHNSON: ‘NO TO NEW MEASURES’ No new restrictions are forthcoming in Britain to contain the spread of the coronavirus even if there is a “storm of contagions” in Europe. And there is the risk that “a snowstorm could come from Eastern Europe”. So British Prime Minister Boris Johnson ruled out changing the government’s plan with respect to the pandemic. “At the moment we don’t see anything in the data to suggest that we have to go to plan B, we are sticking to plan A,” he said during a visit to a medical center in east London. “What we certainly need to recognize is that there is. it’s a storm of infections out there in parts of Europe ” where infections ” are increasing very rapidly in some of our continental friends, ” he added. “We just have to recognize that there is always the risk that a blizzard could come again from the East, as the months get colder”, continued the British Prime Minister, underlining that “the best protection for our country is for everyone to go ahead and get that booster. “