Green light from the British government and the National Health Service (NHS) to the third dose of the anti Covid vaccine starting in September. The further recall, recommended by the experts of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization, aims to strengthen and preserve immunity even in the face of possible variants. Anyone over the age of 50 residing in the UK and younger people who have already been prescribed flu vaccination in the past will be eligible. The campaign, to be completed by the beginning of winter, will begin with vulnerable patients and in total will involve millions of people in total.
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The program should run in parallel with the annual flu vaccination campaign. The definitive indications of the JCVI will be published before September and will take into account the epidemiological situation, further scientific data from studies, the real-time analysis of the efficacy of vaccines over time and emerging variants.