The UK’s official advisory body on vaccines will not recommend the government extend its CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus vaccination programme to under-18s, a cabinet minister said on Wednesday. Asked about the issue of vaccinating children against COVID-19 on the BBC’s “Breakfast” programme, International Trade Secretary Liz Truss said that “the government will look very closely at the JCVI’s recommendations,” referring to the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation. “It is my understanding that they are not recommending the vaccination of under-18s and we will be saying more in due course about that,” she said. The UK’s medicines regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), has approved the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for use among children aged 12 and over in the UK. When asked on Monday if the government was planning to vaccinate children, government chief medical officer Chris Whitty said that “you wouldn’t want to vaccinate [children] unless the vaccine …