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London: Britain has now given around 2 million people a COVID-19 vaccination, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Sunday ahead of a ramp-up in the roll-out of the shots on Monday. "Over the last week we've vaccinated more people than in the entirety of December, so we're accelerating the roll-out," he told BBC TV. Asked how many people had been vaccinated, Hancock said: "It's around the 2 million mark, but we're going to publish the exact figures tomorrow and then henceforth on a daily basis." Britain is aiming to vaccinate around 14 million people by the middle of February, comprising the ...

ROLLOUT of the Covid vaccine is now underway in north Oxford with hundreds of jabs being delivered from a school gym. Patients who have been shielding since March were among the first to get the Pfizer vaccine yesterday as part of work by Summertown Health Centre, 19 Beaumont Street Surgery and Banbury Road Medical Centre. The surgeries are also expecting to start delivering the Oxford vaccine at care homes in the city from Monday as part of accelerating efforts to protect the most vulnerable. Dr John Monach, co-clinical director of the primary care network (PCN) which encompasses the...

2021/01/09 15:34 FILE - In this Tuesday Dec. 8, 2020 file photo, 90 year old Margaret Keenan, the first patient in the UK to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vacci... FILE - In this Tuesday Dec. 8, 2020 file photo, 90 year old Margaret Keenan, the first patient in the UK to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, administered by nurse May Parsons at University Hospital, Coventry, England. Britain races to vaccinate more than 15 million people by mid-February, and in an effort to ensure vaccines get to the right places at the right times, along with the s...

Oxford COVID-19 vaccine expands to General Practice services in UK As part of a phased rollout since the jabs received regulatory approval last month, the vaccine has been trialled at selected hospitals in the country for surveillance purposes. Share Via Email   |  A+A A- Doses of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University and U.K.-based drugmaker AstraZeneca are checked as they arrive at the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath. (Photo | AP) By PTI LONDON: Supplies of the Oxford University vaccine produced by AstraZeneca began expanding to General Practice (GP) led ser...

The Covid-19 vaccination programme is under way - the largest in British history