Flu vaccines to be offered to all primary school pupils

Flu vaccines to be offered to all primary school pupils

‘Children, aged two and over, and all primary school children will be offered the flu vaccination from Thursday.
The move is the second phase of the Public Health Agency’s (PHA) childhood flu immunisation programme.
The programme started in 2013 and saw all children aged between two and three – and all children in primary six – offered the vaccine.
Nearly all children will receive the vaccine through a nasal spray.’
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