2 million people will be vaccinated each week by the end of January according to the government.
It is also hoped that by the end of the month, everyone within the first priority group for vaccination – residents and staff in care homes across the country – will have been offered the vaccine.
The Department for Health and Social Care said that a workforce of over 80,000 health workers along with 200,000 volunteers could be involved with the vaccine rollout.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: “It’s taken a tremendous amount of hard work and dedication to make such an incredible start to this ambitious deployment programme.
