By Natalie Grover
LONDON (Reuters) – All adults in the United Kingdom will be offered a COVID-19 booster starting from September, UK health officials said, hours after the country became the first to approve a Omicron-adapted shot globally.
The preference is to deploy what is known as a bivalent vaccine that targets both the original virus and the Omicron variant through the autumn campaign, but that will depend on the UK health regulator (MHRA) approving such shots and the state of vaccine supplies.
(Reporting by Natalie Grover in London; editing by Barbara Lewis)
