THE RACE TO VACCINATE UK OUT OF LOCKDOWN

THE UK’s vaccination programme will take a major step forward tomorrow as the first ‘super-vax’ centres, capable of inoculating up to 3,000 people a day, open their doors.

Already 1.5 million people have been vaccinated, mostly with the Pfizer jab.

Now the mass rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine heralds a blitz of inoculations. With more than 1,300 people dying each day, and the pandemic raging across the country, health workers are locked in a race to protect as many vulnerable people from the deadly virus as quickly as possible.

And with a huge acceleration planned this week, tomorrow could mark the start of a fightback that finally suppresses Covid-19 and, eventually, allows our lives to return to normal.