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<p>For phase two of the COVID-19 vaccination programme, the Joint Committee on Vaccination
and Immunisation’s (JCVI) interim advice sets out that the most effective way to minimise
hospitalisations and deaths is to continue to prioritise people by age, as it is assessed
to be the strongest factor linked to mortality, morbidity and hospitalisation.</p><p>
</p><p>Prison staff will not therefore be prioritised in phase two of the COVID-19
vaccine programme. However, in order to minimise vaccine wastage in delivery of the
programme, the JCVI has advised that where vaccines remain unused following an offer
of vaccination to those in detained settings, such vaccine it could reasonably be
offered to prison officers.</p>
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