The Public Health Agency is rolling out its winter vaccination programme, starting this month.
More than a million people in Northern Ireland will be offered vaccines against Covid-19 and flu this winter.Most vaccines will be provided by GPs and community pharmacies but health trusts and schools will also be offering vaccinations.Many people will be familiar with how they received their flu vaccine in the past and the PHA said that in most cases the Covid-19 autumn booster will be offered through the same route.
Parents of children in primary one to year 12 should look out for the consent forms coming home in schoolbags, said the PHA.Each trust will have specific arrangements for clinics that are only for frontline HSC workers and a small number of other eligible groups, such as those under the age of 18 and pregnant women.
The PHA said a small number of vaccinations planned by some of the trusts had been temporarily delayed but that had since been resolved.
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