Health
People over 50 could get Covid jab ‘very quickly’, suggests vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi – Evening Standard
New hope amid fresh Tory tensions over how soon lockdown can end
Vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi raised hopes today that people in the 50 to 70 age group in Britain could be offered the Covid-19 jab very quickly.
He declared that the goal of offering the vaccine to 15 million people in the four top priority groups by mid-February would be met.
He also stressed that medics could administer more than 600,000 jabs a day, the record so far.
He struck the upbeat note as Tory MPs stepped up the pressure on Boris Johnson to ease lockdown, possibly earlier than March…
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