Thirty million will be offered free flu jabs to help NHS fight coronavirus second wave

More than half the entire population of England will be offered free flu jabs this winter to ensure the NHS is able to cope with a possible second wave of coronavirus. Everyone over the age of 50 will be eligible, as well as all schoolchildren up to Year 7, health workers and the medically vulnerable in the biggest flu vaccination programme in British history. In total around 30 million people will be covered by the scheme - double last year’s number, when only the over-65s and younger chi