LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will start providing COVID-19 shots to those aged 65 and over on Monday as it closes in on its target to offer vaccines to 15 million people in priority groups including the elderly and frontline health care workers.
The federal government set Monday as the deadline to provide a very first vaccine dose to everyone in its leading 4 top priority sections, including all those aged 70 and over, an objective it looks most likely to reach.
According to the current official figures, 14.56 million individuals have received a shot, allowing health authorities to expand the program to those aged 65 to 69, and to other scientifically vulnerable people.
The National Health Service (NHS) stated about 1 million individuals had already gotten invitations.
” Every jab in the arm is another step more detailed to going back to normality in the future and that’s why we’re now inviting the next top priority group to schedule their visits,” Vaccine Minister Nadhim Zahawi stated in a statement.
Britain, which has taped more than 120,000 deaths from COVID-19, was the very first Western nation to start mass vaccinations in December, and leads other European nations in rolling out the shots.
Reporting by Michael Holden; Editing by Helen Popper
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