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Professor Sir Mark Walport said the strategy maximised the number of vaccines on a basis of the most vulnerable.

Teaching unions and police officers have been angered by the Government’s move to continue the rollout of coronavirus vaccines in age order,…

UK to focus on age, not occupation for next vaccines 257 vaccines will be administered based on age rather than occupational risk, an advisory group said Friday, sparking anger from police and teachers who said they should get priority. says it plans to finish the whole population by the end of July. It is aiming to give a first dose to people over 50 and vulnerable groups by mid-April before moving onto those in their 40s, followed by those in their 30s and over-18s, said Professor Wei Shen Lim from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI). Lim said it was speedier to move ...

The sharp criticisms come after Downing Street's phase 2 vaccine rollout plans did not include provisions to administer COVID-19 jabs to police officers as frontline...

Jane Kirby 26 February 2021, 6:44 pm Matt Hancock has defended the continued rollout of the UK vaccination programme in age order, saying it is the “fastest and simplest way to roll out the jabs”. The Health Secretary said the view of the Government and its advisers was that “the right thing to do, the moral thing to do is to make sure that we save the most lives”. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has advised that vaccination in order of age remains the quickest way to cut deaths, with age still a dominant risk factor for serious illness and death from Covid-...