The health secretary Matt Hancock has confirmed that the government is now delivering coronavirus jabs at a rate of 200,000 a day and that the Covid-19 vaccine will be offered to every adult in the UK ‘by the autumn’.
Speaking on the BBC, Mr Hancock said “The good news is that over the last week we’ve vaccinated more people than in the whole of December.”
Asked if the UK would be able to vaccinate everybody by the autumn, he said: “Yes, every adult will be offered a vaccine by the autumn, absolutely. I totally agree it’s very, very important.”
