Coronavirus UK news update – Kids ‘to get vaccines from August’ as Boris says ‘greed’ is behind Britain’s jab success

CHILDREN will start being vaccinated against Covid-19 from August, according to reports.

A report in the Telegraph suggests that a vaccine rollout for children could start as soon as the end of summer, once all adults have had their jab.

But the Department of Health and Social Care said “no decisions have been made” on whether children should be offered vaccinations.

Currently, only youngsters at very high risk of severe infection are offered a jab, a policy based on Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) advice.

Professor Adam Finn, from the University of Bristol and a member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) said more than one study was needed before decisions were made about extending the vaccination programme to children.

“We’ll need to do more than one study,” he told Good Morning Britain.

“If it does turn out to be necessary to immunise children, I think it is more likely that we would prioritise teenagers over younger children, simply because the evidence we have at the moment is that transmission of the virus is more likely to occur from and between teenagers who are a little bit more like adults.

“I think what we need to learn before that, what proportion of the population we need to immunise in order to get effective herd immunity and to suppress circulation of the virus .

“In order to do that we need to have a clear understanding of how efficiently the vaccines actually interrupt infection and transmission and that evidence is still on its way at the moment.”

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