UK-wide booster jab plan expected on Tuesday

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A UK-wide programme of booster jabs to help prevent Covid will be confirmed on Tuesday, the BBC understands.

Ministers are expected to announce jabs for the over-50s following official advice from the independent vaccine panel, the JCVI.

BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the initial booster would be a single dose of the Pfizer vaccine.

And it was likely to be administered to patients at least six months after their second dose.