Elderly and vulnerable Britons may have a coronavirus vaccine every year in a similar way to how the flu jab is currently rolled out, Boris Johnson has said.

At a Downing Street press conference, the Prime Minister said Britain needs to be "getting ready" for booster jabs to become a standard public health measure in the autumn to combat new variants.

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