Gap between jabs to be reduced to eight weeks for all UK under-40s
Tue, 6th Jul 2021 06:00
(Alliance News) - Every adult in the UK should have had the chance to have both doses of a coronavirus vaccine by mid-September, the government said.
The gap between jabs is to be reduced from 12 weeks to eight for all under-40s, the health secretary said.
Sajid Javid told MPs the move amounted to reinforcing our vaccine wall of defence further still .
Giving a statement in the Commons on Monday, he said: Today, even though cases are heading upwards in line with what we expected, hospitalisations are increasing at a much lower rate and deaths are at just 1% of the figure we saw at the peak.