Frontline NHS staff in England must get two doses of the Covid vaccine by next spring or lose their jobs, the Government is expected to announce today.
Whitehall sources claim the April deadline — which was first mooted last week — will give enough time for unvaccinated employees to get their jabs.
Only the Covid vaccine will be compulsory with the flu jab strongly recommended but not required for staff on hospital wards, the BBC reports.
Unions have blasted the
Double-jabbed people still have a one in four chance of catching Covid from an infected household member, according to a study by ‘Professor Lockdown’ Neil Fergusson.
This is even the case if the person infected was fully jabbed themselves, in what is known as a vaccine breakthrough case, said Imperial College London researchers.
But the risk to unvaccinated household members was even greater, with a 38 per cent chance of catching the virus from infected household members.
The scientists were
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