Health Secretary Matt Hancock confirmed the UK has now administered more than 50million Covid vaccines, 34.6million people so far having one jab and 15.4million having received two.
Taking to social media, Mr Hancock wrote: ‘We’ve just delivered the 50 millionth jab across the UK! Massive achievement from the team.
‘These jabs are saving lives and helping us get back to normal. Thank you to everyone who has played their part in our national effort. When you get the call, get the jab.’
During an election campaign visit in Hartlepool, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: ‘As things stand, and the way things are going, with the vaccine rollout going the way that it is – we have done 50 million jabs as I speak to you today, quarter of the adult population, one in four have had two jabs. ‘You are seeing the results of that really starting to show up in the epidemiology. I think that we will be able to go ahead, feels like May 17 is going to be good.
‘But it also looks to me as though June 21 we’ll be able to say social distancing as we currently have to do it, the one-metre plus, I think we have got a good chance of being able to dispense with the one-metre plus from June 21. ‘That is still dependent on the data, we can’t say it categorically yet, we have got to look at the epidemiology as we progress, we have got to look at where we get to with the disease. But that’s what it feels like to me right now.’
