Patients aged over 50 years, as well as those at risk of serious disease, should be offered a booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine from the week beginning 20 September 2021, government advisers have said. The booster should be offered no earlier than six months after a patient’s second COVID-19 vaccination, with health secretary Sajid Javid confirming in a speech made in the House of Commons on 14 September 2021 that some patients would begin receiving offers for their additional dose from the following week.
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