May 4 (Reuters) - Everyone aged over 50 in Britain will be
offered a third COVID-19 vaccination jab in the autumn in an
attempt to eradicate the threat from the infection entirely by
Christmas, The Times newspaper reported.
Trials of two options are under way, supervised by Chris
Whitty, the chief medical officer for England, the newspaper
said. The first involves vaccines specifically modified to
tackle new variants. The second is for a third shot of one of
the three versions already in use: Pfizer-BioNTech
, Oxford-AstraZeneca or Moderna, the
newspaper reported.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Leslie
Adler)