A bit more on that breaking news that one dose of a Covid vaccine is to be offered to all 12 to 15-year-olds in Scotland.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says that from Monday, drop-in clinics will be available for any in this group who has read the information and - in discussion with parents and carers - decided they wish to be vaccinated.

They will be offered one dose of the Pfizer vaccine.

She says it will be appropriate for them to be accompanied by a parent or carer.

Subsequently, Ms Sturgeon said, vaccinations will be done in schools for those who have not yet been jabbed but decide they want it.

All children aged between 12 and 15 in Scotland are to be offered the coronavirus vaccine from Monday, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says.

Colleges and universities will not be holding large in-person classes when they return for the new term, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says.

She says face coverings must still be worn indoors and she encourages all students to get tested regularly - and "strongly" encourages them to get vaccinated.

Follow all the very latest updates on Sturgeon's briefing here.

No changes will be made to Covid-19 restrictions in Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon has said.

The first minister told MSPs on Tuesday that following a meeting of her cabinet for the regular review, no new measures will be put in place.The decision comes as Scotland is still in the midst of a spike in cases, although the infection level is coming down, Mrs Sturgeon says said.

There's been a huge amount going on today so if you're just joining us, here are the latest headlines:

• Health Secretary Sajid Javid has set out the government's Covid-19 Autumn and Winter Plan. As part of it, the NHS is preparing to offer Covid booster jabs from next week, the health secretary says. Around 30 million people, including the over-50s, younger adults with health conditions and frontline health and social care workers, will be offered a third dose
• Other parts of his "Plan A" include encouraging the unvaccinated to have the jab. "Plan B", which would be triggered if the NHS comes under unsustainable pressure, could include compulsory face coverings in certain settings, asking people to work from home, and the possible introduction of vaccine passports

• The Welsh health minister has confirmed over 50s there will be getting the booster. Announcements are expected in Scotland and Northern Ireland later
• Campaigners and some parents say they're worried about plans to vaccinate healthy 12 to 15-year-olds in schools in England, announced last night.
• It comes after Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi confirmed all children of this age in England would be offered one dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid jab
• The number of payrolled jobs in the UK has recovered to the level it was before the pandemic, according to new figures. There's been another fall in unemployment and there's a record number of vacancies, adding to staffing problems in key industries

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BBC Monitoring

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Russia's President Vladimir Putin is "absolutely healthy" following potential exposure to Covid-19, his spokesman has said.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Kremlin announced that the Russian president was going into self-isolation after some of the people he had met had been confirmed to be ill with coronavirus.

Asked at a daily news briefing about whether President Putin had been tested for Covid, his spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said: "Of course he has been. The president is absolutely healthy.

"Of course, we know which of the people around the president have fallen ill," but stopped short of naming them.

"Isolation does not directly impact the president's work, it's simply that there won't be any face-to-face meetings for some time. But, again, this doesn't affect the intensity. The president continues working using videoconferencing," Peskov said.

Sajid Javid said compulsory vaccine certification could be introduced at some events in England under the government's Plan B for dealing with the virus over winter.

Boris Johnson originally announced in July that this would be required at all nightclubs from the end of September, as well as other unspecified places "where large crowds gather".

But over the weekend, Mr Javid said the government had dropped plans to introduce them from next month, adding ministers shouldn't be "doing things for the sake of it".

He has cautioned they will be held "in reserve" in case ministers feel the measure is needed over the autumn or winter months.

Read more about vaccine passports here

As we've reported, the health secretary has announced that the NHS in England is to start offering booster vaccines that will “protect the most vulnerable through the winter months”.

Sajid Javid said he had accepted the advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation to offer a third jab to those in the same priority order as the first two doses - at least six months after the second dose.

Watch the moment he set out details of the programme below.

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Chief political correspondent

Ministers will be crossing their fingers that they don't have to deploy their Plan B for dealing with the pandemic.

That's not just because it would mean Covid had come roaring back, but because they would face a battle with their own backbenchers over the return of mandatory facemasks and the introduction of Covid certificates to access certain venues.

While the health secretary was speaking, minutes from the latest meeting of the government's SAGE advisory group have been published.

Reading between the lines of these documents, they suggest some of the government's own advisers think Plan B should be introduced now, to keep the virus under control before the weather turns wintry.

Here are the latest headlines:

• China has seen a new surge in coronavirus cases, linked to a primary school in Fujian province
• The Russian government says President Vladimir Putin will go into self-isolation because a case of coronavirus was detected in his entourage
• South Africa's FA (Safa) is confident the country can sufficiently suppress its number of Covid-19 infections in time to host Fifa's Club World Cup later this year
• You may have read all about the Met Gala in New York last night, but did you know that rapper Nicki Minaj decided not to go as she hadn't yet had a Covid vaccine, which was a requirement of entry?

Back in the Commons and Conservative Sir Graham Brady raises the issue of testing for travellers, saying there is evidence that people returning from green list and amber list countries over the summer actually had a lower level of Covid than people who stayed in the UK during the summer.

He asks Sajid Javid whether he accepts that makes a very powerful case for getting rid of the day-two PCR test for people returning from those countries.

Javid says the government has constantly kept travel rules relating to Covid under review.

He adds he is looking to make a set of changes "very soon" and the transport secretary will be bringing forward those changes to the House as soon as soon as he possibly can.

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There are some new details in the Covid plan about how the government expects vaccine passports would be used in England, if ministers decide to bring them in under their "Plan B" for tackling a major surge in coronavirus infections.

The government originally said vaccine passports would be introduced at nightclubs from next month, before dropping those plans over the weekend.

If needed, the document says mandatory vaccine certification could be introduced at:

• indoor events with more than 500 people, where they are "likely to be in close proximity to people from other households" - such as music venues or large receptions
• outdoor events with more than 4,000 people where they are likely to be in close proximity, such as outdoor festivals
• events with 10,000 or more attendees, such as large sports and music stadiums
• all nightclubs

There would be exemptions for places of communal worship, wedding ceremonies, funerals and other commemorative events, protests and "mass participation sporting events".

The document adds that this requirement could be imposed at short notice - so the government will be publishing more details "shortly". It says firms would get at least one week's notice.

Asked what's being done about global vaccination rates, Sajid Javid says not all countries have behaved in the same way as the UK in offering vaccines to poorer countries.

He says the UK has already donated 9.2 million doses to Covax, a worldwide initiative aimed at equitable access to vaccines. The UK remains committed to that programme, he says, and the Foreign Office is trying to encourage more countries to join.

Health Secretary Sajid Javid has announced what he calls the "five pillars" of the government's Covid autumn and winter plan. Here's an at-a-glance look at them but you can read the detail here, external.

Vaccines

• The government wants to maximise the uptake of the vaccines among those that are eligible but have not yet taken up the offer.
• They will offer booster doses starting with priority groups 1-9 from the first rollout.
• They will offer a first dose of vaccine to 12 to 15-year-olds.

Test, Trace and Isolate

• PCR testing will continue to be available free of charge, as will symptom-free lateral flow tests.
• Contact tracing will continue through the NHS test and trace system.
• Practical and financial help will be given to all those still required to self-isolate.

Supporting the NHS and social care

• The government will give the NHS £5.4bn towards its Covid response over the next six months, including £1bn to tackle the backlog.
• There's a consultation going on but the health secretary says it is "highly likely" that front-line NHS staff and those working in wider social care settings will also have to be vaccinated.

Guidance and communication

• People will be encouraged to meet outdoors where possible, and try to let in fresh air when meeting indoors and face masks should be worn in crowded areas.

International approach

• The UK will play its part to lead the global effort to accelerate access to vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics.
• The UK will maintain strong defences at the border to identify and respond to variants of concern.

Health Secretary Sajid Javid says the trigger for Plan B would be to look carefully at pressures on the NHS and, if unsustainable, the government would look to see if those Plan B measures - masks, working from home advice and vaccine passports - are needed.

He also says they would be setting out the treatments available, as well as any new ones, for the immuno-suppressed.

He went on to stress that flu risk is significant this year. He tells MPs the flu vaccine itself does have less efficacy than normal but is still a very worthwhile vaccine - and that's why they will be trying to encourage greater uptake of it.

Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth says the test of Sajid Javid's Plan A and Plan B is whether we can push infections down, keep schools open, maintain access to all care in the NHS and avoid another lockdown.

He asks what would trigger plan B and whether Mr Javid will rule out local lockdowns.

Ashworth goes on to say he welcomes the decision to offer vaccines to 12 to 15-year-olds and today's news of booster jabs for the over-50s.

But he expresses concerns about how that will play out in places where there has been low take-up of the vaccine and asks what support will be offered to those areas.

The government has now published its autumn and winter plan for dealing with Covid in England.

It's 32 pages long, and you can read the full document here, external.

Sajid Javid says the government has a "plan B" of contingency measures that could be rolled out in England if there are “unsustainable" pressures on the NHS over the autumn and winter.

He says this includes further government communication, making masks mandatory again in certain settings, vaccine passports for events, and encouraging working from home again.

But he says these measures would only be used if they are “needed and supported by the data”.

He says they are "not an outcome anyone wants", they are an outcome ministers "need to be ready for, just in case".

The health secretary says the fifth pillar of the government's plan relates to pursuing an international approach to the pandemic.

He says he attended a G20 meeting of health ministers last week and spoke about how the UK would be playing its part to lead the global effort to accelerate access to vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics.

He says the UK will maintain strong defences at the border, allowing the UK to identify and respond to variants of concern.

Javid adds that he has asked the Competition and Markets Authority to review the issue of "exploitative behaviour" in the private testing market. He says he is looking into what further action the UK can take against this.

The health secretary adds that the government will be publishing a new framework for international travel and the transport secretary will announce more detail ahead of the formal review point on 1 October.

Sajid Javid says the fourth pillar of the government's plan is to take steps to keep seasonal illnesses at bay, including flu and Covid-19.

The best step people can take is to get vaccinations for Covid and flu if they are eligible, he says.

As a result, Javid says, in the next few months there will be the largest flu vaccination campaign the country has ever seen.

People will also be encouraged to meet outdoors where possible, and try to let in fresh air when meeting indoors.

He says people should wear face masks in crowded areas where they can come into contact with others they don't normally meet.