FOURTH COVID JAB DELAY

AUSTRALIANS will have to wait a little longer before being offered a fourth Covid jab following confirmation those most vulnerable will soon become eligible for a “winter booster”.

The second booster shot will be offered to people aged 65 and over, the immunocompromised, Indigenous Australians over 50 and residents of aged and disability care facilities from Monday.

Vaccines will be dispensed through state and commonwealth clinics, GPs, pharmacies and Indigenous medical clinics.

The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation recommended the fourth shot be given four months after their first booster and can be co-administered with the influenza vaccine. But the advisory body said there was “insufficient evidence” to open up the program to the broader public.