Covid booster vaccines: Over 50s, care home residents and health workers to get third jab | ITV News

ITV News published this video item, entitled “Covid booster vaccines: Over 50s, care home residents and health workers to get third jab | ITV News” – below is their description.

Covid booster vaccines will be offered to people in the UK aged 50 and over, those in care homes and frontline health and social care workers, the government has announced.

It means more than 30 million people in the UK will be offered a third dose of either the Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna coronavirus vaccines.

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