THE last Local Democracy Reporting Service
Weekend Feature examined the enormity of the task in front of the NHS with the Covid-19 vaccination programme. As of January 21, only eight per cent of Cheshire and Merseyside residents had had their first dose of the jab with the inaugural inoculation coming on December 8 in our region. This week, it was revealed by NHS chiefs that, despite having a long way to go, it’s completed the first major hurdle in protecting Cheshire against coronavirus.
What has the NHS achieved? In short, it has offered a first dose to everyone in Cheshire who is in ‘group one’ of the government’s priority list ‘residents in a care home for older adults and staff working in care homes for older adults’.
Staff at Homlands Medical Centre have been working hard on Wirral s Covid vaccination programme Merseyside and Cheshire is continuing to make rapid Coronavirus vaccination progress, with over 80% of residents aged 80 or above having now received their fist jab. Latest figures published by NHS England show that up to January 24, a total of 292,278 first dose jabs were delivered across the two counties, plus a further 27,828 quantities of the second booster dose. This means that over 320,000 jabs have been administered in total across Merseyside and Cheshire since December 8, 2020 - and area that has an estimated population of 2,040,921. Patients include 100-year-old Irene Atkinson from Prenton, who received her first jab at home on January 21, thanks to staff from Holmlands Medical Centre.
The UK s coronavirus vaccination programme is in full swing on Merseyside More than 200,000 coronavirus vaccine jabs have been administered by healthcare workers across Cheshire and Merseyside in the fight back against Covid-19. New NHS England data shows that from December 8, 2020 to January 17, 2021 a total of 174,592 first dose jabs were delivered across the two counties, plus a further 26,628 quantities of the second booster dose. Of the first dose jabs, 80,336 were given to people over the age of 80, with 94,226 given to other priority categories. But more over 80s have received the second dose - 17,638 - compared to 8,990 under 80s, who have now had both injections.