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SPONSORED: Vaccines vital to defeat COVID-19 © Supplied Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A multi-million pound vaccine programme is being rolled out at a fast rate across the UK with over ten million people having already been immunised. We focus on how jabs are being distributed and the many people working together to ensure everyone receives the vital vaccine. After becoming the world’s first country to approve a vaccine for use, the UK Government has bought jabs on behalf of all the UK, distributi...

A multi-million pound vaccine programme is being rolled out at a fast rate across the UK, with over 10 million people already immunised.

05:41 EDT, 18 February 2021 The whole of the UK is now working together to roll out the Covid-19 vaccine. A total of 407 million doses have been bought by the UK Government, and every injection is helping to protect people and provide a route back to normality. Every step of the roll-out involves a network of people collaborating across every nation of the UK to protect as many lives as quickly as possible, while also reducing hospital admissions that are creating such pressure on the NHS. Joint effort: The whole of the UK is now working together to roll out the Covid-19 vaccine

There have been 3,205 positive cases in the last week, down from 4,227 in the previous seven days. Hospital occupancy is at 95% with 2,854 people in beds. A total of 68 patients with Covid-19 are in intensive care - 63 of those are ventilated. And 99 care homes are dealing with an outbreak of the virus. The figures come after the Public Health Agency (PHA) announced that 453 care homes across Northern Ireland have now received both Covid-19 vaccinations. This includes staff as well as residents who agreed to receive the vaccine. Northern Ireland was one of the first regions in the UK and Irel...