The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) will set out who they believe should be next in line for Covid-19 jabs in a few weeks time.
Asked who would be next to be vaccinated after the top nine priority groups, JCVI member professor Adam Finn, from the the University of Bristol’s School of Clinical Sciences, told BBC Breakfast: “That discussion is ongoing at the moment and of course it goes beyond just medicine and public health as to who society values most and who they think are most important.
“In terms of the JCVI, we’re very focused on the evidence of who’s at the highest risk and at the moment the outstanding factors predicting that is still age.
“And of course you need a system that you can operationalise, so you can identify the people and quickly get the vaccine to them.
“So I can’t give you an answer to exactly how that will look.
“But over the coming few weeks we’re making those plans and I think they will have to be an announced by the end of February or early March so that we know what we’re doing next.”
