{"id":54571,"date":"2021-12-14T16:42:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T16:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/?p=54571"},"modified":"2021-12-14T16:42:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T16:42:04","slug":"whos-eligible-for-the-booster-jab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/whos-eligible-for-the-booster-jab\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s eligible for the booster jab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flnks.gd%2Fl%2FeyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMTAsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsImJ1bGxldGluX2lkIjoiMjAyMTEyMTQuNTAyNzYzODEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5nb3YudWsvZ292ZXJubWVudC9uZXdzL3VyZ2VudC1vbWljcm9uLWFwcGVhbC1nZXQtYm9vc3RlZC1ub3cifQ.Lx3gkiQcGlcTUdMuXbbK3Yb4U5BscT5kPPEOg6O-09I%2Fs%2F172374962%2Fbr%2F123049626213-l&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cmike.bomford%40devon.gov.uk%7C772341c1db804b976d5508d9bf1c78ed%7C8da13783cb68443fbb4b997f77fd5bfb%7C0%7C0%7C637750951383120971%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=q4IDiX5kEIDEqQShkbPIDp%2FQxzEXdhZolGfvZtldGqQ%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Prime Minister has expanded the booster vaccination programme<\/a> and said that every eligible adult will be offered their jab by the end of the year<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Today (Tuesday 14 December), people who are eligible for the booster jab include:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>anyone over the age of 30&nbsp;years old<\/li><li>people who live and work in care homes, or are frontline health and social care workers&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>people aged 16 years old and over with a health condition that puts them at risk of becoming seriously ill from coronavirus&nbsp;<\/li><li>people aged 16 years old and over who are a main carer for someone at high risk from coronavirus&nbsp;<\/li><li>people aged 16 years old and over who live with someone who is more likely to get infections&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>From tomorrow, (Wednesday 15 December), people aged 18 years old and over can book their booster vaccination.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You will be offered a booster dose at least three months after your second dose, but you will be able to book the appointment from two months.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you have had coronavirus recently, you need to wait 28 days after COVID-19 infection if you are 18 years old or over, or 12 weeks if you&#8217;re under 18 years old, before you can receive your booster vaccination.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please bring along your NHS number with you if you can, because that helps the vaccination teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[293],"class_list":["post-54571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-social-care","tag-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"featured_image":false,"category_priority":false,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2028-08-26 09:45:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54572,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54571\/revisions\/54572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}