On January 13th Boris Johnson announced to the House of Commons that the vaccination programme would be “going to 24/7 as soon as we can.”
Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said due to limited supply of vaccines and public preference for daytime jabs, means the all day service is unlikely to be delivered in the near future.
“We have discovered, perhaps to nobody’s surprise, that people tend to want to have the jab during the day and those who are doing the vaccination prefer to do it during the day,” he said.
“And so, since what you need to do is you need a vaccinator and you need the vaccine and you need the person being vaccinated, getting those three together during the day is more convenient than overnight.”
Not ruling out the government taking another look at the option in the future he continued “We’ll do anything – anything – to make sure that the supply is delivered into people’s arms as fast as safely possible, including 24-hour supply.”
