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<p><del class="ministerial">The advice within the Joint Committee on Vaccination and
Immunisation (JCVI) interim statement of 25 January 2023 is that primary course COVID-19
vaccination should move, over the course of 2023, towards a more targeted offer to
protect those persons at higher risk of severe COVID-19. As this advice is interim,
further work will be done to finalise the eligible cohorts in due course.</del></p><p><del
class="ministerial">Current COVID-19 vaccines may provide some short term protection
against infection and onwards transmission and this may reduce the risk of transmission
from household contacts to immunosuppressed individuals who are at high risk of complications,
and who may not directly benefit from vaccination.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The
vaccination of household contacts and carers may provide some short term protection
against infection and may reduce the risk of onwards transmission to those at higher
risk. It will also reduce the risk of serious disease in carers, which, if they were
to fall ill, may compromise the welfare of those they care for. </del></p><p><ins
class="ministerial"> <p><ins class="ministerial">The Joint Committee on Vaccination
and Immunisation (JCVI) report does not contain any evidential basis for proposed
cohorts, as it was interim advice. The considerations for any future decisions will
be part of future JCVI reports and meeting minutes.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Current
COVID-19 vaccines may provide some short-term protection against infection and onwards
transmission, weekly surveillance reports can be found at the following link:</ins></p><p><ins
class="ministerial"><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fcovid-19-vaccine-weekly-surveillance-reports&data=05%7C01%7CAlexandra.Goodwin%40dhsc.gov.uk%7Cf8c258e161da49d54a9708db34fe209b%7C61278c3091a84c318c1fef4de8973a1c%7C1%7C0%7C638162038286550978%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UMm7q%2BBQ5yF7CqxrlOoxJFV6k6uFvpjUcfzQesawX20%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-vaccine-weekly-surveillance-reports</a></ins></p><p><ins
class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">This may reduce the risk
of transmission from household contacts to immunosuppressed individuals who are at
high risk of complications, and who may not directly benefit from vaccination. It
will also reduce the risk of serious disease in carers, which, if they were to fall
ill, may compromise the welfare of those they care for.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">
</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The advice within the JCVI interim statement
of 25 January 2023 is that primary course COVID-19 vaccination should move, over the
course of 2023, towards a more targeted offer to protect those persons at higher risk
of severe COVID-19. The vaccination programme can be found at the following link:</ins></p><p><ins
class="ministerial"><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fcovid-19-vaccination-programme-for-2023-jcvi-interim-advice-8-november-2022%2520&data=05%7C01%7CAlexandra.Goodwin%40dhsc.gov.uk%7Cf8c258e161da49d54a9708db34fe209b%7C61278c3091a84c318c1fef4de8973a1c%7C1%7C0%7C638162038286550978%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=D2Ue3qeAtDcN%2BbbCGjwLm%2FQYj6CbSG99KdR%2FNDXY0xA%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-vaccination-programme-for-2023-jcvi-interim-advice-8-november-2022
</a></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Since
the JCVI interim statement of 25 January 2023, the JCVI published a statement on 7
March 2023, which contained detail of the spring 2023 booster programme which can
be found at the following link:</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fspring-2023-covid-19-vaccination-programme-jcvi-advice-22-february-2023&data=05%7C01%7CAlexandra.Goodwin%40dhsc.gov.uk%7Cf8c258e161da49d54a9708db34fe209b%7C61278c3091a84c318c1fef4de8973a1c%7C1%7C0%7C638162038286550978%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Ok9GK%2FsGRq2wiZry5v4uP0YLec0hs5M39XQe38PvYAY%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/spring-2023-covid-19-vaccination-programme-jcvi-advice-22-february-2023</a></ins></p><p><ins
class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The JCVI advice for the
spring 2023 booster programme does not include primary or booster vaccinations for
the groups referred to in this question.</ins></p></ins></p>
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