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Covid: Half a million over-80s invited to new mass vaccination centres – The Independent
Letters sent out to those most at risk who have not yet had first jab
More than half a million people aged 80 and over will be invited to seven new mass vaccination centres this week, NHS England has said.
The first letters were being delivered this weekend as the government sought to rapidly accelerate the national coronavirus immunisation campaign.
Boris Johnson has set a target of vaccinating 14 million of those most at risk from Covid-19 in the UK by mid-February, at a rate of more than 2 million each week.
So far around 1.5 million people have been given their…
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