New Covid vaccine and flu shots are available from this week

A booster coronavirus vaccine is administered at a Covid vaccination centre at Elland Road in Leeds, as the booster vaccination programme continues across the UK. Picture date: Tuesday December 21, 2021.

Some 15 vaccine centres around the country will be used to bolster protection against Covid-19 for the winter, with vulnerable citizens urged to avail of the jab in the coming weeks.

The HSE is encouraging the uptake of both flu and Covid-19 jabs, warning that a flu jab alone will not protect against the killer virus that brought the country to a halt for the best part of two years, and vice versa.