Covid booster jabs available at walk-in sites in England

Those entitled to a booster jab include people aged 50 and over, care home staff and residents, and frontline health and social care workers.

Also included are people aged 16 to 49 years old with underlying health conditions which put them at greater risk of severe Covid, and adults sharing a home with vulnerable people.

The top-up will be available at hundreds of sites across England, and NHS England said nearly every person registered with a GP practice lives within 10 miles of a fixed vaccination site.

Dr Nikki Kanani, a working GP and also deputy lead for the NHS Covid-19 vaccination programme, said: “The booster is not just nice to have, it is really important protection ahead of what we know will be a challenging winter.”

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said during his trip to the G20 summit in Rome on Sunday: “I think rather than thinking [about] new restrictions, the best thing everybody can do is get that booster jab as soon as you’re offered it.”

“I think people don’t quite realise that the first two jabs do start to wane,” he said.

“How sad, how tragic it would be if people who had other complications, other compromises in their health, got seriously ill because they were overconfident about their level of immunity and didn’t get their booster when they needed it.”

More than 45 million people in the UK have been double-vaccinated, according to latest government figures., and nearly eight million have received a booster or third dose.