Analysis found nearly one in four people in England live in a constituency with no hospital, GP practice or appropriate community building for giving coronavirus vaccines.
David Wooding, Assistant Editor
Updated: 3 Jan 2021, 7:20
David Wooding, Assistant Editor
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BORIS Johnson yesterday hailed the arrival of a life-saving jab and predicted the war against coronavirus will soon be won.
The PM declared the new Oxford vaccine a “triumph of British science” as the first 530,000 doses were delivered to key hospitals.
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The first batch of the new Oxford vaccine arrived at Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards HeathCredit: PA:Press Association
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Bosses at the NHS were last night scaling up for tomorrow’s launch of the biggest immunisation programme in its history.
Despite the size of the operation and the threat posed by a virulent new Covid variant, Mr Johnson is convinced the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine will soon have the virus in retreat.
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Monday vaccine approval was being speeded up and border controls beefed up to curb the spread of the coronavirus,
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Health officials today warned that people as young as 30 will die from Covid as NHS hospitals in the West Country brace for an overspill of critically-ill patients from London under emergency plans.
Trusts in London and the south-east at the centre of the UK s epidemic are preparing to transfer patients to hospitals in the south-west while patients in the east of England will be moved to the Midlands.
The massive Nightingale hospital at the London Excel Centre, which was created in record-time early in the pandemic only to be swiftly mothballed, is also expected to reopen within a fortnight, the Times reports.