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Covid vaccines now available for children from five to 11-year olds in England
The BBC reported, parents and carers of five to 11-year olds in England can book a low-dose Covid vaccine for their children from Saturday morning.
Jabs can be booked online from 07:00 BST, and will be available to receive from hundreds of sites from Monday.
It comes after the UK's vaccine advisers said the jabs would help "future-proof children's defences" against infections.
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland already offer the jabs.
In general, most children are not at high risk of becoming severely ill from Covid.
In February, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation said vaccines should go ahead to prevent "a very small number of children from serious illness and hospitalisation" in a future wave of Covid.
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It recommends two doses of the low-dose vaccine, 12 weeks apart, with some five million children now eligible.
Source: BBC
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