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Vaccination updates

Updates on our vaccination plans and progress in North Wales

July 31 2024

Our COVID-19 Spring booster vaccination campaign has now come to an end, with 64,322 of the most vulnerable people in North Wales taking up our offer to strengthen their protection against the virus

This means 83.1% of eligible people in our area have topped up their immune system by receiving a booster since our campaign began in April 2024 – exceeding the Welsh Government target of 75%.  

Eligible groups included all people aged 75 and over, residents in care homes for older adults, and all adults and children aged six months and over who are immunosuppressed.

 

Thank you to our patients and partners

National figures show we were the second best-performing health board in Wales during the Spring campaign. Only our colleagues in Powys delivered boosters to a higher proportion of the population. 

Our vaccination teams delivered more than 15,000 more boosters than any other health board, and have now given a total of more than 2.3 million since the COVID-19 programme began in December 2020. 

We would like to thank everyone who came forward to take up their invitation for a Spring booster vaccine, our many partners across North Wales, and the dozens of venues we worked with to deliver vaccination clinics at the centre of communities across our region.

To protect against the serious illness caused by COVID-19, we continue to encourage people at highest risk from the virus to take up the offer of booster vaccines as recommended by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation and the Welsh Government.

 

COVID-19 Autumn booster and RSV vaccination programmes

Our teams are now planning the next stage of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign, which we expect to begin later this year. 

We also continue to work with our partners to support other priority vaccination programmes, including the introduction of RSV vaccination for pregnant women and older adults. We will share more details of these programmes soon. 

 

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