On Thursday, Streeting told the BBC that the risk remained “extremely low”.
“It’s absolutely fine for people to go about living their lives in a normal way,” he said.
Forty MPs have signed a letter calling on the government to work with universities on catch-up vaccination programmes, and to improve awareness.
The UKHSA has issued a public health alert for doctors in England to watch out for meningitis symptoms.
Its chief executive, Prof Susan Hopkins, told the BBC that she had never seen “such an explosive start to a meningitis outbreak”.
The detected strain had been circulating for five years, she said.
Hopkins added the bacteria was being studied and hopefully there would be more answers in the coming days and weeks.
Historically the “vast majority” of meningitis outbreaks had been successfully controlled by interventions, she said.
