Vaccine centre will handle 3,000 a day
A TARGET of carrying out 40,000 vaccinations locally before the end of March has been set, but achieving it will depend mainly on whether the UK sticks to its supply promises.
A TARGET of carrying out 40,000 vaccinations locally before the end of March has been set, but achieving it will depend mainly on whether the UK sticks to its supply promises.
A queue was seen snaking around corners in Forest Hill, London, as residents were invited for vaccine slots.
MORE THAN 40,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines are due to arrive in Guernsey over the next few months, and Public Health has set an ambitious target of administering all of them by the end of March.
Health chiefs said it was ‘tough out there’ on hospital wards as the region targets 300,000 vaccinations a week.
The Moderna vaccine means that the UK should have at least three effective Covid-19 vaccines in use by the spring.
The third vaccine to be given the green light by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency will not be available until the spring.
It is the Government’s aim to offer coronavirus vaccines to all elderly residents by the end of January.
AstraZeneca and Pfizer have said they are supplying the vaccine as quickly as possible and to schedules agreed with the Government.
Getting the Oxford and AstraZeneca jab out to GP surgeries is seen as a key step in the national vaccination rollout.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock insisted manufacturers were producing as much vaccine as they could.
The Labour leader called for more volunteers to help reach the target of vaccinating almost 14 million people by next month.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock visited a GP surgery to promote the rollout of the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab – but they had yet to receive it.
Hospitals report that staff are caring for many more patients than during the first wave of the pandemic, with cases expected to rise.
MPs signed off on the latest lockdown measures as the daily reported death toll passed 1,000.
Family doctors are the next phase of the vaccine rollout plan.