BUILDINGS across the district are being lit up in blue today to celebrate a key milestone in the local COVID-19 vaccination programme – as 250,000 local people have now received their first dose. Council and NHS buildings including the clock tower at City Hall in the centre of Bradford, Airedale General Hospital and Bradford Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust buildings will be lit up in blue this evening and overnight to mark the occasion. Thanks to the efforts of staff and volunteers at vaccination sites across the area, over a quarter of a million people have moved a step closer to being protected against coronavirus and returning to the things they love. The district-wide vaccination programme has resulted in those greatest at risk being offered the vaccine first, in line with the priority groups identified by the Joint Committee on Vaccinations and Immunisations (JCVI).
A quarter of a million local people have now received their first dose. Council and NHS buildings including the clock tower at City Hall in the centre of Bradford, Airedale General Hospital and Bradford Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust buildings, will be involved this evening and overnight to mark the occasion. Thanks to the efforts of staff and volunteers at vaccination sites across the area, over 250,000 people have moved a step closer to being protected against coronavirus and returning to the things they love. The district-wide vaccination programme has resulted in those greatest at risk being offered the vaccine first, in line with the priority groups identified by the Joint Committee on Vaccinations and Immunisations (JCVI).
Across Keighley and Ilkley 28.3 per cent of the population have received a vaccine. Everyone in the top four priority groups has now been offered a vaccine, as invites are now going out those in priority groups 5 to 9. The latest figures now show that two thirds of those aged 65 to 69 have now been vaccinated. Mr Moore has also welcomed the Prime Minister’s roadmap to take cautious and irreversible steps out of lockdown. He said: “The NHS vaccination programme, the biggest in our country’s history, has been a fantastic success story and showcases the very best of collaboration across the entire United Kingdom. I would like to thank everyone involved in this enormous effort, without whom, this would not be possible.
It happened on Friday, February 19. There were no further deaths at Airedale General Hospital and Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust. The total death toll at hospitals in the Bradford district now stands at 810 - 560 at BRI, 248 at Airedale and two at Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust. NHS England announced 53 patients at hospitals in the North East and Yorkshire who tested positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19) have died. Of those, 33 were reported at hospitals in Yorkshire and the Humber. There were 13 in West Yorkshire - 10 at the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs Pontefract Hospital, Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield, Dewsbury and District Hospital and community health services in Wakefield, two at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust and one at BRI.