Care residents, staff first in line to get Covid vaccine

Care home residents and staff will be the first to receive a Covid-19 vaccine when one is approved, according to official documents.

Updated guidance from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) states all those 80 years of age and over, and health and social care workers, will be next in line.

The full list is as follows:

 

  1. Older adults’ resident in a care home and care home workers.
  2. All those 80 years of age and over and health and social care workers.
  3. All those 75 years of age and over.
  4. All those 70 years of age and over.
  5. All those 65 years of age and over.
  6. High-risk adults under 65 years of age.
  7. Moderate-risk adults under 65 years of age.
  8. All those 60 years of age and over.
  9. All those 55 years of age and over.
  10. All those 50 years of age and over.
  11. Rest of the population (priority to be determined).

The final decision on the prioritisation for health and social care workers will be dependent on vaccine characteristics and the epidemiology at the start of any programme, JCVI said.

The prioritisation could change substantially, it added, if the first available vaccines were not considered suitable for, or effective in, older adults.

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