PM: Remaining second doses for over-50s to be accelerated
Boris Johnson has said that remaining second doses for the over-50s will be accelerated so they come eight weeks after the first.The Prime Minister told the Downing Street press conference: “I believe we should trust in our vaccines to protect the public whilst monitoring the situation as it develops very closely because the race between our vaccination programme and the virus may be about to become a great deal tighter and it’s more important than ever therefore that people get the protection of a second dose.
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A total of 39,379,411 people have received their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, the UK's official Covid-19 dashboard says. There have also been 25,537,133 second doses given.
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Government data up to May 27 shows that of the 63,349,252 jabs given in the UK so far, 38,871,200 were first doses – a rise of 256,517 on the previous day.Some 24,478,052 were second doses, an..
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Government data up to May 25 shows that of the 61,995,062 jabs given in the UK so far, 38,378,564 were first doses – a rise of 186,147 on the previous day.Some 23,616,498 were second doses, an..
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