Spring booster jab will be fifth vaccine dose for some across Lincolnshire and Newark
The campaign is a key part of the Government's 'Living with Covid' plan
Last updated 22nd Mar 2022
The spring Covid-19 booster jab is available from today (Tuesday 22nd March) to over 75s and clinically vulnerable people across Lincolnshire and Newark.
It's also on offer to those living in older adult care homes and will help limit the severity of Covid-19 and reduce hospitalisations from the more at-risk groups should they become infected.
For some people it will be their fifth dose of the jab, and it's likely not going to be the last, according to Lincolnshire's director of Covid vaccinations, Rebecca Neno:
"I think it's a high likelihood that there will be a further Covid-19 vaccination offer in the Autumn, along side the flu campaign. I don't know how large that campaign will be, obviously that's a decision for the JCBI, the joint committee for vaccinations."
"The vaccines will certainly play a very central role in the future, hopefully eventually we'll have what we call a multivalent vaccine, which will be a vaccine that will cover many different types of virus in relation to coronavirus coming forward.
"I would love to see a world and, obviously wouldn't we all, where we have a vaccine that's got a long lasting protection... and protects like the measles, the tetanus vaccine, the diphtheria vaccine - those sorts of things that we have once in our life, or once every ten years."