People aged 65-69 in England can be invited for Covid vaccine

GPs and other vaccinators can now give coronavirus vaccinations to people aged between 65 and 69 in England if they have done all they can to reach older and clinically vulnerable people in higher priority groups.

NHS England has quietly indicated that regions could be given permission to move on to group five, although the formal target to offer a vaccine to everybody in groups one to four by Monday 15 February remains in place.

“We have been told by NHS England that, in exceptional circumstances, where we have reached other groups, we can move on to cohort five [65-69-year-olds],” said one GP who asked not to be identified.

Doctors in Coventry, in the Midlands, and Hackney, east London, have been given the go-ahead to turn to the younger age group, the Guardian understands, while the PA Media news agency said several others were in a similar position.