Around 20million people in England are eligible for the Covid top-up jab this year, including the over-65s, pregnant women and people with underlying health conditions.

Care home residents and those who are housebound are the first to get a top-up jab as part of the autumn rollout in England, which kicked off today.

And for the first time, those eligible for a flu vaccine will be able to book an appointment online under a new pilot with more than 200 sites across the country.

Dr. Paul Offit, a member of the FDA’s Vaccine Advisory Committee, said he’s not fully sold that the benefits of a third shot outweigh the harm and the booster has only been tested on lab mice.

Covid is still officially a pandemic, but many experts would now describe it as endemic (something that’s constantly present in the population).

Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration has given provisional approval to Moderna’s bivalent Covid vaccine designed to target both the Omicron variant of the virus and the original Covid strain.

The re-entry window of the space debris has narrowed as its orbit decays, and it is no longer possible for the rocket booster stage to fall into the atmosphere over the United States.