The UK's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has recommended vaccinating children aged 12-15 if they are at higher risk of Covid-19.
These include children with severe neurodisability such as cerebral palsy, autism or epilepsy, children with down's syndrome and those with a severely weakened immune system, including some children with cancer, or profound and multiple learning difficulties.
The JCVI has also recommended immunising 12- to 17-year-olds who live with people who have a suppressed immune system, as a form of indirect protection.
Those at higher risk who are already aged 16 or 17 can be vaccinated under existing rules and all young people within three months of turning 18 will also be offered the Pfizer jab.
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