82,000 people now vaccinated for Covid across northern Lincs
EVERY ADULT TO BE OFFERED VACCINE BY END OF JULY
AROUND 30 per cent of people in North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire have now been vaccinated for coronavirus.
NHS England has broken down its vaccine figures by CCG for the first time.
According to the latest data, published on February 18, 82,000 people in northern Lincolnshire have received a Covid-19 vaccine between December 8 and February 14.
This breaks down to 39,163 in North East Lincolnshire and 43,737 in North Lincolnshire – and equates to about 30 per cent for both regions.
A total of 17,582,121 people in the UK have received their first dose, while 615,148 others have had their second, as of February 21.
North East Lincolnshire
According to the 2019 ONS Population Estimate, North East Lincolnshire has a population count of 128,528.
Of those, 24,047 are over 70 and 104,481 are 16 to 69-years-old. The figures show about 95 per cent of over-70s – or 22,794 people – have received their first dose – and, of those, about 11 per cent – or 2,508 people – have had their second.
This compares to the 13 per cent – or 13,526 people between 16 and 69-years-old – who have had their first dose. Of those, about 2 per cent – or 335 – have received their second.
North Lincolnshire
North Lincolnshire has a population count of 140,340, according to 2019 ONS Population Estimate. Of those, 26,216 are over 70 and 114,124 are 16 to 69-years-old.
According to the figures, about 98 per cent – or 25,605 people over aged 70 – have had their first vaccine. Of those, another 4 per cent – or 982 people – have received their second.
For the 16 to 69-year-olds, about 15 per cent – or 16,906 people - have had their first dose, while roughly 1 per cent – or 244 people – have received their second.
It comes as the director of North East Lincolnshire’s public health, Stephen Pintus, praised the CCG for its “brilliant” work in rolling out the vaccine.
He said: “Some of us are quite long in the tooth in our careers but we have never seen anything quite like the effort that is being put into this vaccine programme.
“We are beginning to work our way down the age groups. We are in the over 90 per cents in terms of achievement and that is a credit to all staff in the clinical commissioning group and primary care, who are largely responsible for the success.
“We are now moving beyond the top four priority group as we met the deadline set by the Government to achieve that. “Everyone in that group will have been offered a vaccine by March 15 and now we’re extending it down to the next set of priority groups and we anticipate the same level of success.”