Vaccination Update


Today Britain passed a significant milestone in our national vaccination programme. We have achieved the target of administering a total of 15 million jabs into the arms of some of the most vulnerable people in the country. The number who have received both doses is now over 534,000.

  • Our world leading vaccination programme has been a truly UK-wide effort and we want to thank each and every person who has made it happen, and everyone who has signed up for a jab so far.
     
  • Tomorrow, the Prime Minister will set out in full the details of the progress made vaccinating the four most vulnerable groups, and has committed to setting out a roadmap on 22 February detailing how we will cautiously begin to start lifting restrictions.
     
  • There is still a long way to go and there will undoubtedly be bumps in the road, but after what we have achieved together we can go forward with confidence.

From tomorrow, NHS staff will begin vaccinating people aged 65 to 69 and those who are clinically vulnerable against Covid-19, giving those most at risk the protection they need as we continue to fight this disease together.

  • Britain's world-leading vaccination programme is continuing at an unprecedented speed and we need to keep up the momentum by expanding it even further.
     
  • That is why from tomorrow, the next phase of the vaccine programme will begin, as our NHS starts to vaccinate people aged 65 to 69 and those who are clinically vulnerable. Anyone aged 70 or over who has not yet done without some very good reason is strongly recommended to book an appointment online, contact their GP or dial 119 right away.
     
  • Vaccines are our way out of this pandemic, and accelerating the programme further will help us on our route back to normality.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Nick Herbert on his visit to flood hit areas of Cumbria

Please note that the post below was published more than ten year ago on 21st November 2009 Nick Herbert MP, shadow cabinet member for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, was in Cumbria this morning to see the areas affected by the flooding. He writes on Conservative Home about his visit. Here is an extract. I’ve been in Cumbria today to see the areas affected by the floods. I arrived early in Keswick where I met officials from the Environment Agency. Although the river levels had fallen considerably and homes were no longer flooded, the damage to homes had been done. And the water which had got into houses wasn’t just from the river – it was foul water which had risen from the drains. I talked to fire crews who were pumping flood water back into the river, and discovered that they were from Tyne & Wear and Lancashire. They had been called in at an hours’ notice and had been working on the scene ever since, staying at a local hotel. You cannot fail to be impressed by the
Read more

Quotes of the day 19th August 2020

Image
"Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise."  ( Cato the Elder , who lived 234 BC - 149 BC, quoted in "Lives" by Plutarch.) There is a similar saying by Germany's Iron Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck: Benjamin Franklin is supposed to have put the same saying in a more humorous form: "Wise men profit by the mistakes of others, while fools will not learn even from their own blunders." See also this thread on the "Quote Investigator" website . Let us all be wise and learn from the events of the last few days.
Read more

Quote of the day 24th July 2020

Image
I was moved to put the passage below forward as a quote today when I saw a horrible post on twitter from someone writing that it was "excellent" that someone who took a different view from her about Brexit had died. I won't write which way round it was so that all the Remain supporters can assume the post was from a Brexit fanatic welcoming the death of a remainer and all the Leavers can assume it was a Remainiac welcoming one less Brexiteer. There's been plenty of nasty stuff on both sides but if you catch anyone of your own viewpoint  posting something like that who might listen to you, please do call them out on it - and point out that they're giving everyone on your side of the argument a bad name. Anyway, here's the quote from John Donne.
Read more