Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the new national lockdown restrictions are ‘starting to have an effect,’ and are starting to bring down Covid-19 cases in some parts of England however ‘it is still early days.’
“What we are now seeing, and it’s very, very important to stress that these are early days, we are now seeing the beginnings of some signs that that is starting to have an effect in many parts of the country, but by no means everywhere and it is early days,” he said.
Responding to a question from the Labour leader, Keir Starmer, Mr Johnson confirmed that in order to vaccinate the target of 15 million people by mid-February, vaccine centers will start vaccinating people around the clock.
Mr Johnson saying: “We’ll be going to 24/7 as soon as we can.”
“At the moment, the limit is on supply. We have a huge network of 233 hospitals, 1,000 GP surgeries, 200 pharmacies and 50 mass vaccination centres. They are going exceptionally fast and I pay tribute to their work.”
More details of the round-the-clock rollout will be given by Health Secretary Matt Hancock in due course.
