Vaccine roll-out extended to include over-70s

ACROSS the UK, millions of over-70s and the clinically extremely vulnerable can expect to start being invited for a vaccine as the Government expands roll-out of the jabs.

More than 3.8 million people in the UK – including over-80s, care home residents, and NHS and social care staff – have already received their first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, but from this week it will be rolled out to the next two priority groups.

The Government said it would remain the priority to vaccinate those in the first two groups, but added that sites which have enough supply and capacity to vaccinate more people will be allowed to offer jabs to the next cohorts.

Ten further mass vaccination centres were opening in England yesterday. NHS England said they will join the seven existing mass vaccination sites across the country, alongside around 1,000 GP-led surgeries and more than 250 hospitals already providing jabs.

Elsewhere in the UK, more people are now in hospital with coronavirus in Scotland than at any time during the pandemic – despite new infections falling to the lowest level in almost three weeks.