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Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation

People are being urged to take up the offer of a free Covid jab while they still have the chance (Photo: Getty Images)

Final calls from NHS for people to have Covid booster jab

All over-50s will be offered boosters

Covid boosters for all over-50s amid soaring infections

In this Centers for Disease Control and Prevention handout graphic, from 2003, symptoms of one of the first known cases of the monkeypox virus are shown on a patient's hand Pic: CDC/Getty Images

Monkeypox: Number of Scots infected rises to 40

Experts have urged pregnant women to take up the offer of a vaccine.

Half of women who gave birth in January not fully vaccinated

Nurse Sarah MacLeod, from the Vaccination Team, gives Margaret Swift, aged 69, from Balgreen, Edinburgh, her vaccine at the coronavirus mass vaccine centre at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre on February 1, 2021 in Edinburgh. Photo by Jane Barlow - Pool/Getty Images

Covid Scotland: Spring booster marks new era in vaccine programme

Nicola Sturgeon MSP arrives to update MSPs on changes to the Covid restrictions at the Scottish Parliament. (Fraser Bremner/Scottish Daily Mail/PA Wire)

Vaccine jags for five to 11-year-olds in Scotland from mid March

A fourth dose is to be offered

Older Scots and the most vulnerable to receive Spring Covid booster

Coronavirus vaccines have saved the lives of almost 30,000 Scots, a senior Government adviser said as he urged parents to get their children vaccinated.

Expert urges parents to get children jabbed

The JCVI recommended vaccinating vulnerable children in December (Photo: Getty Images)

How Covid vaccinations could be used to stop UK school disruption

Members of the public queue for vaccinations on a vaccination bus at West College Scotland Clydebank Campus on December 17, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

How is the Covid booster vaccine programme going?

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Vulnerable Scots may get fourth Covid vaccine in spring or summer

A child receives a dose of Pfizer/BioNTech Covid 19 vaccine. Picture: Sebastien Bozon/AFP via Getty Images

Study has revealed why children are more protected from severe Covid than adults

(FILES) This file photo taken on December 17, 2021 shows a child receiving a dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against Covid-19, in Paris. - The vaccination of children aged 5 to 11 is officially open, French Health Minister Olivier Veran announced on December 22, 2021, although he said the booster dose had not been extended to teenagers "for the moment". (Photo by GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP) (Photo by GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP via Getty Images)

Pfizer vaccine approved for use on children aged five to 11

The Moderna booster jab increases antibodies against Omicron 37-fold (Photo: Getty Images)

Moderna booster jab increases antibodies against Omicron 37-fold

Pregnant women should be given priority for the Covid vaccine (Photo: Getty Images)

Pregnant women given priority for Covid jabs due to ‘high risk’

Existing booster vaccines may give effective protection against the new Omicron variant of Covid-19, experts have claimed.

Booster vaccines may be effective against new variant, experts say

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'Mismatch' between vaccine booster advice and real world situation, MSPs told

Giving all adults in Scotland a Covid booster jag by the end of January is “hopefully achievable” but will not be easy, a public health expert has warned.

Boosters for all adults by the end of January won’t be easy, expert warns

Health Secretary Humza Yousaf has announced that there are three more cases of the Omicron variant identified in Scotland

Three more cases of Omicron variant identified in Scotland

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How Scotland is scrambling to shore up defences against new Covid variant

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Omicron: All adults to be offered booster Covid vaccine

HADERA, ISRAEL - NOVEMBER 24: Israeli child Liron Nurjits, 11, recieves a Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine from a Clalit health provider worker on November 24, 2021 in Hadera, Israel. People aged 12 and up in Israel are already eligible for the two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and a follow-up booster. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

Omicron: Sturgeon backs Covid vaccines for children under 12

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New Covid variant: Booster vaccine may be offered to all adults, says expert

EIS backs Covid vaccinations for children over five

Scotland's largest teaching union backs Covid vaccines for children over five

The Scottish Conservatives have called for mass vaccination centres to be reopened.

Call for mass vaccination centres to be reopened

Over-40s to be offered Covid booster jab as vaccination programme extended

Health officials have announced that the Covid-19 vaccine booster will be offered to healthy 40 to 49-year-olds.

Covid Scotland: vaccine booster will be offered to over-40s

The Scottish Government will now allow Scots who took part in vaccination trials to request a course of approved vaccines, so they can travel internationally.

Changes made to allow travel for Scottish vaccine trial participants

Teenager Katie Moore receives a Covid vaccination at the Barrhead Foundry vaccination centre near Glasgow. Picture: PA

'Families with teens will not be able to travel abroad', says Covid expert

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Who is eligible for a booster vaccine and is the scheme on track?

The six month wait before the booster dose could be reduced to five (Photo: Getty Images)

Wait before booster jabs could be cut to 5 months to speed up rollout

Younger teenagers can now receive the vaccine

Covid vaccine appointments sent to 12 to 15-year-olds from Monday

Children aged 12 to 15 are now being vaccinated against Covid in Scotland and England (Picture: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

Shocking disparity in vaccination rates between rich and poor –Dr Gwenetta Curry

Children wait to be vaccinated against polio in 1956 (Photo by Terry Fincher/Getty Images)

We didn't learn to live with cholera or polio, so why Covid? – Graham Checkley

Scotland’s rollout of Covid booster vaccinations for elderly care home residents is to get under way, while children aged 12 to 15 will be offered their first coronavirus jab.

Booster programme for care homes begins as 12 to 15-year-olds invited for jabs

Moderna found its Covid vaccine can wane in protection over time (Photo: Shutterstock)

Moderna backs Covid boosters after warning jab protection fades

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Covid vaccines to be offered to 12-15 year olds

The scientist behind the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine has said giving booster jabs to everyone is unnecessary, and instead calls for doses to be sent to countries in need (Photo: Shutterstock)

Covid booster jabs not needed for everyone, says Oxford vaccine creator

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and deputy John Swinney walk up a corridor prior to updating MSPs in any changes to coronavirus restrictions. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell-Pool/Getty Images

Decision on vaccination of 12-15-year-olds expected 'within days'

Health Secretary Sajid Javid has said children will get the final say on Covid vaccinations if a disagreement arises between them and their parents (Photo: Shutterstock)

Children will get final say on Covid vaccination if they disagree with parents, ...

Parents of children aged 12 to 15 will be asked to give their consent if the jabs are approved for this age group (Photo: Getty Images)

Children aged 12 to 15 will need parental consent to get Covid jab

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said vaccine passports could do more harm than good.

Vaccine passports 'could increase hesitancy', says Anas Sarwar

Jason Leitch has said that there is ‘absolutely still a chance’ that children aged 12 to 15 will get the coronavirus vaccination.

'Still a chance' young teens will get vaccine says Jason Leitch

Ministers have put the mass booster programme on hold to prioritise those with serious illnesses (Photo: Getty Images)

Full list of people eligible for a third Covid vaccine dose

Third jags to be offered to people with severely weakened immune systems

People urged to get second Covid jab amid fears millions missed out

Scottish Labour are urging the Scottish Government to prioritise teachers for booster jabs.

Demands to prioritise booster jabs for teachers as experts say rollout 'likely'

Nicola Scotland has said mitigations such as face masks could continue in schools for longer.

Sturgeon hints at vaccinations in schools to tackle rise in Covid cases

The vaccine doses will be delivered in the second half of next year (Photo: Getty Images)

UK secures 35m more Pfizer vaccine doses to ‘future-proof’ country from

The booster programme is still awaiting recommendation from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) (Photo: Getty Images)

Sajid Javid ‘confident’ Covid boosters can start from September despite no offic...

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Half of 16 and 17-year-olds given vaccine before school return

The Moderna Covid-19 vaccine has been given approval for use in children aged 12 to 17 (Photo: Getty Images)

Moderna Covid vaccine given green light for 12 to 17 year-olds in UK

the MHRA said there is no link between vaccines and stillbirth or miscarriage. (Photo: Shutterstock)

MHRA finds no evidence that Covid vaccines raise miscarriage risk

Covid Scotland: Almost 1,500 new cases of coronavirus reported from across the country

Almost 1,500 new cases of coronavirus reported from across the country

Sajid Javid said the jabs will start to be offered in September (Photo: Getty Images)

Covid booster jabs will rollout to priority groups next month - who is eligible?

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All 16 and 17 year olds to be offered vaccine with rollout starting from Friday

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The United Nations says both the Scottish and UK governments need to improve children's human rights. Image: Michael M Santiago/Getty Images.

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