Covid-19 vaccines to be sold in UK pharmacies

Covid-19 vaccines, which are currently provided in the UK only to at-risk groups and through the Public Health Service (NHS), They will be sold privately in pharmacies across the country starting next month.The Times newspaper reported this this Saturday.

This This will allow people who do not have access to booster shots against the disease to receive the vaccine at pharmacies.

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is in talks with major pharmacy chains to sell your vaccine privately

in the United Kingdom for the first time, the newspaper adds.

Since the first Covid vaccination was given in December 2020, Vaccines against the disease were only available through the National Health Service. and it is the scientific advisers who decide who is entitled to them.

Current advice in the UK is that Vaccinations limited to high-risk people this winterfor example, people over 65, meaning millions of healthy young and middle-aged people have not been vaccinated since mass vaccinations ended two years ago.

In addition to Pfizer, Pharmaceutical company Moderna wants to try to sell its vaccine privately this year. in pharmacies and private clinics.

Pharmacies will set the price.as annual flu vaccines are currently priced at between £15 and £20 (€17 and €23).

“Covid-19 has not disappeared and remains a threat”Gillian Ellsbury, medical director of Pfizer in the United Kingdom, told the newspaper.

“As we move from pandemic to endemic, We must make sure we are prepared to respond to this unpredictable virus. and is constantly evolving,” he added.

“Vaccines remain an important part of preventing serious illness or hospitalization from Covid-19. By ensuring greater availability of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, we simplify choice and access for those who cannot get it through the NHS but want to be able to get the Covid-19 vaccine,” he said.

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (JCVI), which advises the British government on vaccines for the National Health Service, said Covid jabs should be provided through the Children’s Health program this spring. adults 75 years and older and those living in nursing homes.