Booster jabs expected to be rolled out for all over-18s

Junior health minster Edward Argar has said the government could announce plans to rollout Covid booster jabs for all over-18s within “hours”.

The Conservative MP for Charnwood told Sky News this morning that he did not want to “pre-judge” the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation’s (JCVI) urgent review, but hoped this advice would be announced today.

“Sajid Javid has asked the JCVI for advice urgently on bringing down the gap, potentially, between second and booster jabs but also in terms of age range,” he explained.

When asked if the booster shot would be expanded to all adults, he said: “I think that’s what they’re looking at, we’d expect that in the next few hours.”