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<p>The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) are the independent
experts who advise the Government on which vaccines the United Kingdom should use
and provide advice on prioritisation at a population level. For the first phase,
the JCVI has advised that the vaccine be given to care home residents and staff, as
well as frontline health and social care workers, then to the rest of the population
in order of age and clinical risk factors.</p><p> </p><p>If supermarket workers are
captured in phase one due to their age, or clinical risk factors they will be prioritised.
However the Government, as advised by the JCVI, are not considering vaccinating supermarket
workers as a phase one priority at this stage. Prioritisation decisions for next phase
delivery are subject to of the surveillance and monitoring data and information from
phase one, as well as further input from independent scientific experts such as the
JCVI. Phase two may include further reduction in hospitalisation and targeted vaccination
of those at high risk of exposure and/or those delivering key public services.</p>
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