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THE NHS has revealed how many more people have had the coronavirus vaccine in Herefordshire and Worcestershire – and the counties are still amongst the best in the country. A total of 109,196 doses of the Covid-19 jab have been given in the two counties as of Sunday (January 24), up by 30,256 from 78,940 the same day the week before Of these, 63,577 of those were as a first dose to people aged under 80, and 44,113 to the over-80s. This compares to 39,872 and 37,609 the week before. The NHS England figures also show 631 under-80s have had their second dose, along with 875 over-80s. It means 89.4 per cent of the over-80 population in the two counties have now been vaccinated, up from 76 per cent on January 21.
London - 65.4%
A total of 6,918,853 Covid-19 vaccinations - including first and second doses - had taken place in England between December 8 and January 27.
It is a rise of 252,992 on the previous day’s figures.
6.9m
The total number so far of Covid vaccines given out in England.
Of this number, 6,473,752 were the first dose of the vaccine, a rise of 251,902 on the previous day’s figures, while 445,101 were the second dose, an increase of 1,090.
The NHS figures show the number of first doses broken down by 42 so-called Sustainability & Transformational Partnerships (STPs) in England, each of which contains a number of local authorities, NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups.