Good afternoon, today I’m joined by Sir Simon Stevens, Chief Executive of NHS England
and Brigadier Phil Prosser, who is Commander of Military Support to the Vaccine Delivery Programme across our United Kingdom.
Because I know there is now one question at the very top of your minds
and that is how fast and how effectively we can get these millions of new vaccines into the arms of the most vulnerable and those who need them most.
And you want to know that we in government,
the NHS, the Armed Forces, local and regional government, government at every level
The Army will use “battle preparation techniques” to keep up the pace of Covid-19 vaccine rollout across the UK, with hundreds of thousands of doses per day administered by the middle of this month, Boris Johnson has said.
The Prime Minister said almost 1.5 million people have now been vaccinated against the disease and the Government intends to give everyone in care homes a jab by the end of January.
Speaking at a Downing Street press conference, the Prime Minister said people had a right to know how quickly jabs could be rolled out and stressed the NHS was ready to administer vaccines as quickly as they could be supplied.