Coronavirus: Vaccination

(asked on 15th December 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether frontline homeless service workers will receive a covid-19 vaccine under phase 1 of the Joint Committee on Vaccines and Immunisation prioritisation list.


Answered by
Nadhim Zahawi Portrait
Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 6th January 2021

The Joint Committee on Vaccines and Immunisation’s (JCVI) advice has stated that Phase 1 of the vaccine roll out should have the prevention of mortality at the forefront of its objectives, as well as to support the National Health Service and social care system. For the first phase, the JVCI have therefore advised that the vaccine be given to care home residents and staff, as well as frontline health and social care workers, then to the rest of the population in order of age and clinical risk factors. Included in this are those with underlying health conditions, which put them at higher risk of serious disease and mortality.

Phase 2 of the roll out may include further reduction in hospitalisation and targeted vaccination of those at high risk of exposure and/or those delivering key public services.

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