UK Says People Should Take Whatever Covid Shot Offered This Fall

  • Country to give original and omicron-specific booster vaccines
  • Britain approved Moderna’s bivalent shot in world-first Monday
Visitors queue for Covid-19 vaccinations at a National Health Service walk-in vaccine center at Romford, UK on Dec. 13, 2021.Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
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British health authorities said people should take whatever Covid-19 booster shot is offered to them this fall, even as the country became the first in the world to approve a new two-strain vaccine.

The UK will start providing another round of Covid booster shots to about 26 million patients -- aged 50 or above or those with weak immunity -- from September in a bid to bolster defenses against further waves of Covid infections this winter.