Covid: All 16 and 17-year-olds to be offered jabon August 4, 2021 at 2:47 pm

The change in guidance from the UK’s vaccine experts affects around 1.4 million teenagers.

Some other countries have already been routinely vaccinating children over 12. The US has been doing so from May, as well as some European countries like France and Italy, after the EU gave them the go-ahead. Other countries that are vaccinating children include: Brazil, Japan, Israel and Hong Kong.