The NHS has administered 2.6 million doses of the vaccine to 2.3 million people, the Health Secretary has announced adding that
“We have protected more people through vaccinations than all the other countries in Europe put together,”
Matt Hancock, Hancock saying that he wanted the country to have “that great British summer told this evening’s press conference that 80,000 people are currently working or volunteering within the vaccination programme.
Two fifths of over-80s have received their first dose and more than a quarter of care home residents have had a jab,adding that the government target is that all adults will have been offered a vaccine by the autumn.
Earlier the Government released details of its vaccination programme saying that tens of millions of people will be immunised by the spring at over 2,700 vaccination sites across the UK.
It promised that by the end of January, everyone in England will be within 10 miles of a vaccination site or, for a small number of highly rural areas, the vaccine will be brought to them via mobile teams.
There will also be capacity to deliver at least two million vaccinations in England per week by the end of January and all residents and staff in over 10,000 care homes across the country will be offered a vaccine by the end of the month
