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Vaccine watchdog expands autumn booster programme due to uncertainty posed by Omicron sub-variants

Experts hope expanding the offer will provide necessary protection to those at higher risk of severe illness.

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‘Even having had Omicron, we’re not well protected from further infections,’ said Prof Danny Altmann

It takes a lot for a COVID-19 variant to become dominant throughout most of the world. It has happened only three previous times (alpha, delta, omicron) and now is occurring with the omicron family subvariant known as BA.5. How did this occur and what are the implications for the pandemic…

A world-leading expert tells The Mirror face masks and testing should return, as he warns the 'troubling' summer surge in cases driven by the immunity-defeating Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 Covid strains is merely the calm before the storm

Once a week, typically on the day that the Centers for Disease Control updates its COVID data tracker, I send my dad a text: “Did you make an appointment to get your booster?”