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Roughly 29 million people are eligible for an autumn booster but there are just 13 million doses of the new bivalent Moderna jab available

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JCVI says mRNA vaccines such as the Pfizer and Moderna jabs are the most effective for UK booster programme

It's not known how long the vaccines will offer protection for, experts have admitted

In the U.S., officials have asked vaccine makers to target BA.5, rather than the original omicron strain. That has delayed the boosters' development — but officials hope they will be more effective.

The comments come after it emerged that current stock would cover only half the population eligible for the booster jab.

Some people will be offered a Moderna jab and others the Pfizer vaccine

Albert Bourla has already received four doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine

The top executive at Pfizer, a leading producer of COVID-19 vaccines, has tested positive for the virus and says he is experiencing very mild symptoms

The autumn booster program for Covid vaccinations will begin shortly. Over 50s, carers, frontline health workers and those at clinical risk will be inited to get a booster jab.

The groundbreaking Moderna jabs, which target both the Omicron variant and the original strain of the killer virus, will be rolled out in a bid to avoid a winter NHS nightmare