COVID VACCINATION Posted or Updated on 25 Jan 2021

ELIGIBILITY FOR THE COVID-19 VACCINE

The NHS is currently offering the COVID-19 vaccine to people most at risk from coronavirus.

The vaccine is currently available for:

• people aged 75 and over
• people who live or work in care homes
• health and social care workers at high risk

The vaccine will be offered more widely as soon as possible in the following priority order:

• Residents in a care home for older adults and staff working in care homes for older adults
• All those 80 years of age and over and frontline health and social care workers
• All those 75 years of age and over
• All those 70 years of age and over and clinically extremely vulnerable individuals (not including pregnant women and those under 16 years of age)
• All those 65 years of age and over
• Adults aged 16 to 65 years in an at-risk group (see below)
• All those 60 years of age and over
• All those 55 years of age and over
• All those 50 years of age and over
• Rest of the population (to be determined)

The order in which people will be offered the vaccine is based on advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).

Read the latest JCVI advice on priority groups for the COVID-19 vaccination on GOV.UK

Read the NHS information on the COVID vaccine