Nursing home residents, over 80s, and frontline workers to be offered booster vaccines in coming months

The Department of Health has written to the HSE to request a plan for autumn/winter immunisation programmes.  AP Photo/Mary Altaffer

The Government has discussed a programme which will see the most vulnerable in society and frontline health workers receive booster vaccines in the coming months.

The National Immunisation Advisory Council (NIAC) today told the Government that those residents in nursing homes, people over 80, those with underlying conditions and frontline workers can start receiving their booster shots in autumn or winter.