ALL people over the age of 18, are set to be offered a Covid-19 booster vaccine in efforts to tackle the spread of the new Omicron variant.

This comes after early evidence suggested that higher antibody levels may protect better against the variant.

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is now advising that all adults aged 18 to 39 should be offered a booster dose, in order of descending age groups, to increase their level of protection.

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Those aged 40 and over are already eligible for a booster vaccine.

Now, the advice is that booster doses should be given no sooner than three months after people have had their second dose of an original vaccine – shaving three months off the current six-month wait, according to the JCVI.

In addition, young people aged 12 to 15 should be offered a second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, no sooner than 12 weeks after their first dose.

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