As the Covid booster programme continues ahead, a minister has said the UK Government is planning a yearly Covid booster jag programme.
Nadhim Zahawi, the former vaccines minister, said that people will be asked to get a Covid booster every 13 months.
Speaking to The Sun, Mr Zahawi said: "Ultimately our plan, we will, I hope be the first major economy to transition from pandemic to endemic and have an annual vaccination programme."
That would mean people having to get a Covid jag next winter, as well as a flu jag.
With regard to schools, Mr Zahawi, the current education minister, said that face coverings for school pupils could come back, as well as daily testing, but said there was no need for primary-school aged pupils to be vaccinated.
He said: "It’s inconvenient but a small price to pay to keep schools open. We absolutely do not want to close them."
To date, more than 50 million first doses of a Covid vaccine have been administered as well as 45 million second shots and more than 10 million third shots, also known as 'booster' jags.
On November 1, the Scottish Government announced that 100 military members would assist the booster rollout in the country in what Health Secretary Humza Yousaf said was the "midst of an extremely busy period".
The current Covid situation
Today's Covid figures saw 2,012 new cases of Scotland and a total of 32,322 new cases in the UK.
20,066 positive tests were recorded in Scotland during the week ending November 8.
The Scottish Government reports that 66,000 people, or one in 80 people living in private households in Scotland, had coronavirus.
In England, Covid-19 infection rates are the highest they have ever been, raising concerns about the country's response to the virus.
Around one in 50 people in private households in England had Covid-19 in the week to October 30, unchanged from the previous week, according to the latest estimates from the Office for National Statistics.
