Matt Hancock has this evening confirmed a press release sent out by the Cabinet Office earlier today that all over-50s will be offered the Covid-19 vaccines by May.
This news comes as it was confirmed that so far more than 10.9 million first doses have already been administered with the Health Secretary saying ‘lots of things have got to go right’ for the government to hit the goal.
The goal he talks about is to offer vaccines to all nine priority groups, those aged 50 and over, as well as adults aged 16-65 in an at-risk group, by May.
The Cabinet Office press release states: ‘Our public health response – not least the vaccination programme, which we plan will have reached all nine priority cohorts by May – means that we can commit to go ahead with these polls with confidence.’
Of the 52.7 million people aged 18 and over living in the UK, there are a reported 32 million that fall into the first nine groups.
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