Reid: Currently No Plan To Prioritise Vaccination Of Teenagers Ahead Of Return To Schools In September

However Paul Reid says "all options and scenarios" are being looked at when it comes to rolling out vaccines to 12 to 15-year-olds

EU regulators approved the use of the Pfizer jab for teens in May and the National Immunisation Advisory Committee's expected to issue new advice shortly.

Paul Reid says the guidance will determine what happens between now and the start of schools in September:

"It's not currently built into our assumptions. It's not currently built into the base plan that we have (which I've referred to now as Version 31). But everything that we have done has always been modified or planned based on emerging evidence. So we'll wait and assess any recommendations come from them but, but right now we're motoring on with the programme as we've currently set it out."