Vaccines vital to defeat COVID-19
A multi-million pound vaccine programme is being rolled out at a fast rate across the UK with over ten million people having already been immunised. We focus on how jabs are being distributed and the many people working together to ensure everyone
receives the vital vaccine.
AFTER BECOMING the world’s first country to approve a vaccine for use, the UK Government has bought jabs on behalf of all the UK, distributing them around England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.
The government has invested over £300 million in securing and scaling up the UK’S manufacturing capabilities to be able to respond to this pandemic.
We already have several authorised vaccines combating COVID-19 ... more than any other country in the world.
The priority is to save as many lives as possible, as quickly as possible, while also reducing hospitalisations that create pressure on the NHS. The UK is vaccinating more than double the rate per person per day than any other country in Europe.
This success has been made possible by many people from the scientists developing the vaccine and forces personnel setting up vaccination centres to delivery drivers and remote doctors vaccinating the elderly within their community, all working together across the whole nation. Vaccination is the best way to protect people from coronavirus and is the best route back to normality.
The vital vaccine works by teaching your immune system how to defend itself against viral attack.
Singer KT Tunstall has hailed Carole King’s album Tapestry as a lifelong inspiration on its 50th anniversary. King was just 29 was she released the album, which contains numerous hit songs including (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman, Will You
Love Me Tomorrow? It’s Too Late, You’ve Got a Friend and Home Again. Tunstall, who was born in St Andrews but now lives in Los Angeles, told Radio 4 yesterday: “I often get asked what advice would you give young up-and-coming writers and one of the top three pieces of advice I would give them is listen to this record. This for me is a bible. It’s an absolute masterclass. What I am interested in is the meat and bones of a brilliant song and it doesn’t matter who sings it. “The very fact that she can sit down and play every one of these songs, just herself on piano is important to me. “Any musician listening to this record knows Carole King has been on tour. It’s longing, yearning, missing people, and these are cornerstone emotions and experiences of being a human being.”