Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has this morning said all UK adults will be offered the first coronavirus vaccine by September.
Commenting on Sky’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday, Mr Raab said: “Our target is by September to have offered all the adult population a first dose. If we can do it faster than that, great, but that’s the roadmap.
“We’ve got this three point roadmap to make sure that by 15th February we’ve got 15 million people, the highest risk people, 88% of those most at risk of dying as a result of coronavirus, we want them to get their phone first dose,” he said.
“We then want to increase that by another 17 million by the spring, that would take around 99% of those most at risk then have their first dose.
Mr Raab, also suggested that restrictions could be gradually lifted by March if the vaccine rollout continued as planned with the country returning to a tiered system.
“What we want to do is get out of this national lockdown as soon as possible,” he said.
“By early spring, hopefully by March, we’ll be in a position to make those decisions.”
“As we phase out the national lockdown, I think we’ll end up phasing through a tiered approach.”
