ADVICE to ministers that giving a second Covid-19 jab should not be a priority is “grossly unfair” to the patients who are in greatest danger from the virus, GP leaders have warned.

As the approval of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine was announced on Wednesday, experts advising the government, including the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), said that the focus should be on maximising the number of at-risk people who receive a first dose of either vaccine, rather than providing the required two doses in as short a time as possible.

This now means that, for both vaccines, the second dose will be administered within 12 weeks of the first.