COUNTDOWN TO 15MILLION

TOMORROW marks another major milestone in the fightback against Covid as 530,000 doses of the new, British-made vaccine will start to be given out. Already more than a million people (mostly over-80s) have had a first dose of the Pfizer jab – with some receiving their second. With the Oxford vaccine being rolled out next week, it’s expected that at least a million jabs a week will be done this month, with the inoculation programme hitting full throttle in February at double that rate. The great hope is that in mid-March we will reach the 15 million jabs target, the point when it has been predicted that Britain can escape the crippling cycle of restrictions. So, tomorrow’s rollout of the ‘game-changing’ Oxford jab sets us on a happy, optimistic path.