IF you're over 70, then you could get a Covid booster jab from September, according to the vaccines minister.

Nadhim Zahawi the over-70s, health and social care staff and the clinically vulnerable will be at the head of the queue for the vaccine being developed to combat new variants of the virus.

He told the Daily Telegraph September was the "most likely date" for booster immunisations to start.

He said: "We did some fantastic pilots of drive-in jabs that went really well.

"And again, as we go down the cohorts in the current deployment you're going to see more of that.

"It's a great way as you do the under-50s, the under-40s, under-30s.

"Convenience becomes a much greater tool to deploy because you want to make sure for those people, where we think there may be greater hesitancy, we make it as convenient as we can make it."

Mr Zahawi added that the government was hoping to have up to eight vaccines available by the autumn, several of them made in the UK, including one that could guard against three different variants via a single jab.

There are concerns the current vaccines may not work as well against the South African and Brazilian variants, but the jabs can be updated.

The development comes as figures show more than 29million people in this country have had their first dose of a Covid vaccine, with more than 3million having their second jab.