Covid vaccines will be offered to all 16- and 17-year-olds after new recommendations by the UK’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which said they will not need the consent of parents.
The change comes just two weeks after the body recommended against routine vaccination of children and said jabs for over-12s should be limited to those who were clinically vulnerable or live with someone at risk.
The NHS will be instructed to start giving first doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to about 1.4 million children.
