We haven’t enough jabs for rollout, say chemists

PHARMACIES yesterday warned they have insufficient Covid jabs for the autumn booster campaign.

From today around 1.6million care home residents, staff and housebound people will start to be given jabs to protect them ahead of winter. An additional four million people including the over75s will be able to book a fourth jab from Wednesday.

But Leyla Hannbeck, of the Association of Independent Multiple Pharmacies, said some members had receiving just a third of their orders. ‘We’ve known for months that there’s going to be a vaccination process from autumn onwards,’ she told the Sunday Telegraph.

‘You would have kind of thought that the stock would be there to go with it.’

An NHS spokesman said: ‘There are no issues with deliveries and vaccination sites will be rolling out the new bivalent vaccine as quickly as possible.’