Teachers could be among those next in line for Covid vaccine

TEACHERS will be considered as a possible priority for the next phase of the coronavirus vaccine roll-out, a Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) member has said.

Professor Adam Finn, professor of paediatrics at the University of Bristol, said committee members had been instructed to come up with a plan by the middle of February to determine the priority order of who should be vaccinated next. He told Sky News’ Sophy Ridge On Sunday programme that, while he could not predict what will be prioritised, the “critical role” teachers play “really will figure in the discussions”.

Professor Finn continued: “As you can appreciate, these considerations start to be social values, in a way, more than the criteria we normally use, which is pressure on the health service.”