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The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation has recommended that the NHS admminister the chickenpox vaccine to children aged 12 months to 18 months. (Credit: Adobe)

Breaking Infants between 12 and 18 months should be given chickenpox vaccine

Brits have become far more familiar with vaccines since the Covid-19 pandemic struck.

More Brits can now have shingles and HPV jabs - here's how to get them

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Covid booster jab: Who is eligible for Autumn vaccine

Vulnerable children under the age of four will be offered a Covid vaccine (Photo: Getty Images)

Children under 5 to be offered Covid jabs as millions set for boosters

A Covid-19 booster jab will be offered to the elderly and most vulnerable people this spring (Photo: Getty Images)

Spring Covid booster jab to be offered to elderly and vulnerable

There will be a number of vaccines used in the Covid autumn booster rollout

List of Covid vaccines which will be used in autumn booster programme

A number of groups will be able to receive the Covid booster vaccine this autumn

Autumn Covid booster campaign begins in England

All eligible groups are being encouraged to take up the vaccine when it is offered

Everyone over age of 50 to be offered autumn Covid booster and flu jab

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How polio is transmitted explained - as virus found in London sewage

Children aged one to nine in London are to be offered a polio booster vaccination

Polio booster jab eligibility for children in London explained

The monkeypox virus.

Monkeypox vaccine to be offered more widely in bid to control outbreak

Booster jabs are available at walk-in vaccinations centres across England (Photo: Getty Images)

Where to get spring Covid booster jab without booking an appointment

Over 75s, older adults in care homes and immunosuppressed people will be offered a fourth Covid jab. (Credit: Getty)

Over 75s and vulnerable people to be offered fourth Covid jabs

Covid jabs for all children aged 5 to 11 have reportedly been ‘delayed’ (Photo: Getty Images)

Covid jabs for 5 to 11 year-olds ‘delayed’ pending No 10 review

Scientists believe they have identified the “trigger” behind the extremely rare blood clot complications from the AstraZeneca vaccine (Photo: Getty Images)

Trigger of rare blood clots from AstraZeneca found as boosters rollout
Scientists have found that Covid boosters will provide good protection against the Omicron variant
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Children aged 0 to five are now four times more likely than those of school age to be admitted to hospital

Call for Covid jabs for young kids after sharp rise in hospital cases

The JCVI recommended vaccinating vulnerable children in December (Photo: Getty Images)

How Covid vaccinations could be used to stop UK school disruption

Members of the public await their turn to be vaccinated at the Titanic Exhibition Centre which has been transformed into a vaccination as it opens on December 21, 2021 in Belfast (Photo: Getty)

UK ‘considering’ fourth Covid jab to limit Omicron

A new study has shown that infection rates among five to 11-year-olds is three times higher than that of the adult population. (Credit: Shutterstock)

Covid ‘three times’ more prevalent in young kids compared to adults

If you have had a positive Covid-19 test, you will need to wait four weeks before booking your booster dose (Photo: Getty Images)

The rules on getting a Covid booster jab if you are ill with a cold

The Moderna booster jab increases antibodies against Omicron 37-fold (Photo: Getty Images)

Moderna booster jab increases antibodies against Omicron 37-fold

All over 18s in England can now book a booster jab (Photo: Getty Images)

All over 18s can now book a Covid booster jab in England

The UK’s four nations are all bidding to ramp up their Covid booster vaccine rollouts before the New Year (image: AFP/Getty Images)

When can over 18s book the Covid booster jab?

The NHS booking service for booster jabs has now been updated (Photo: Getty Images)

How to book your booster jab as winter vaccine drive is accelerated

All adults aged between 18 and 39 will now be offered a booster dose (Photo: Getty Images)

NHS booking process for Covid booster jabs - and who can get one

Booster doses will be rolled out in order of descending age groups (Photo: Getty Images)

All the age groups eligible for Covid booster jabs under new rules
The booster vaccination programme is being extended to help tackle the spread of the Omicron Covid variant
Claire Schofield

The Omicron Covid variant has now been identified in various parts of the UK (Photo: ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images

Face masks now compulsory in shops and on public transport in England

Health Secretary Sajid Javid has accepted recommendations from the JCVI to extend the vaccine booster programme to all adults. (Credit: Getty)

All over-18s to be offered booster jab amid fears over Omicron

More than 10 million people aged 50 and over still need a booster vaccine.

The areas of England lagging behind on booster jabs for the over-50s

Covid booster jab offered to over 18s ‘earlier than envisaged’

The second Covid vaccine dose for 16 and 17-year-olds should be given 12 weeks or more following the first vaccine dose (Photo: Shutterstock)

Can 16 and 17-year-olds get the second Covid vaccine?

The Covid-19 vaccine booster programme is to be extended to include healthy 40 to 49-year-olds, health officials have said (Photo: Shutterstock)

Over-40s to be offered Covid booster jab

People are advised to use the NHS online walk-in finder to check where their nearest centre is (Photo: Shutterstock)

Will everyone get a Covid booster jab?

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The 15 UK areas where Covid rates are rising the fastest right now

Booster jabs must be given at least six months after the second dose (Photo: Getty Images)

Covid booster jabs rolling out to 1 million people this week

Moderna found its Covid vaccine can wane in protection over time

Moderna backs Covid boosters after warning jab protection fades

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Revealed: Covid infection rates increase by 13% as schools return

Covid-19 vaccines for healthy children have been approved by the UK’s four chief medical officers (Photo: Getty Images)

Parents ‘aghast’ as Covid jabs recommended for 12 to 15 year-olds

The UK’s chief medical officers are currently reviewing the wider benefits of giving 12 to 15-year-olds the Covid vaccine (Photo: Shutterstock)

Javid: child will get final say on Covid jab if disagree with parents

Healthy children aged between 12 and 15 are not recommended to have Covid jabs, government’s advisers have said (Justin Tallis/ Pool / Getty)

Healthy children aged 12 to 15 not recommended to have Covid jab

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England areas with the fewest people fully jabbed against Covid

Ministers have put the mass booster programme on hold to prioritise those with serious illnesses (Photo: Getty Images)

Full list of people eligible for a third Covid vaccine dose

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Where Covid cases are highest in the UK right now

Sajid Javid said the jabs will start to be offered in September (Photo: Getty Images)

Covid booster jabs to rollout to priority groups from September

The vaccine doses will be delivered in the second half of next year (Photo: Getty Images)

UK secures 35m more Pfizer vaccine doses to protect against Covid

A member of the public receives the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in the Turbine Hall at a temporary Covid-19 vaccine centre at the Tate Modern in central London (Photo: TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)

All 16 and 17-year-olds to be offered Covid vaccine

The booster programme is still awaiting recommendation from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) (Photo: Getty Images)

Sajid Javid ‘confident’ Covid booster jabs can start from September

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The UK areas where Covid rates are highest as hospitalisations soar

The Moderna Covid-19 vaccine has been given approval for use in children aged 12 to 17 (Photo: Getty Images)

Moderna Covid vaccine given green light for 12 to 17 year-olds in UK

The MHRA could not establish a link.

MHRA finds no evidence that Covid vaccines raise miscarriage risk

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The UK areas where Covid vaccine uptake is lowest among 18 to 29-year-olds

Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England Jonathan Van-Tam speaks during a media briefing on the latest Covid-19 update (Photo by YUI MOK/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Government to offer Covid vaccine to 16 and 17 year-olds ‘as soon as possible’

Can pregnant women receive the Covid vaccine? (Photo: Shutterstock)

Should pregnant women get the Covid vaccine?

As the vaccination programme progresses, plans are in place to begin vaccinating people with Covid boosters during the autumn and winter months (Graphic: Mark Hall)

When could Covid vaccine boosters be rolled out and will vaccines be mixed?

The gap between vaccine doses will be reduced to eight weeks (Photo: Getty Images)

Thousands urged to bring second Covid vaccine appointment forward

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