Seven centers will open on Monday as the UK government makes efforts to accelerate the virus that is underway.
The British government will open seven mass vaccination centers on Monday as part of efforts to accelerate the implementation of COVID-19 vaccinations that the government wants to deliver against all vulnerable people by the middle of next month.
The country, which is the first vaccine approved to be developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and by Oxford-AstraZeneca, currently immunizes about 200,000 people a day, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Sunday.
According to government data, around 1.3 million people received their first dose of the two-dose vaccination as of January 3, but the UK needs to vaccinate two million people a week to reach the target of vaccinating those in care homes. 70s, who are clinically vulnerable by 15 February with pre-existing conditions and health and social care workers.
Britain is pinning its hopes on rapid vaccination to enable life to return to a certain extent through the spring of the northern hemisphere, even as it tackles a rapidly rising pandemic.
In addition to the seven major centers, Britain is also using up to 1,000 clinics, 223 hospitals and 200 pharmacies to deliver the vaccinations, vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi said in a statement. The army will also be deployed in support of the national health service.
The 100-year-old Ellen Prosser, known as Nell, receives the first dose of Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at a care home in London. The UK wants all residents of care homes, over the age of 70, vulnerable people and health and care workers to receive the vaccine by mid-February [Kirsty O’Connor/Pool Photo via AP Photo]
“They will work together day and night to ensure that our vaccines go into the arms rather than sitting on the boards,” Zahawi said. ‘British troops will use techniques from decades of experience to get things done in some of the most difficult circumstances imaginable. They will bring to the shores the courage and brilliance they have shown in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. ”
Health Minister Matt Hancock will outline his vaccination plan COVID-19 later on Monday – the largest vaccination program in British history.
‘The delivery plan in the UK will be the key to our exit from the pandemic, but we must all play our part by staying home, following the rules and keeping hands, face, space first when we no longer want to . and over, ”he said in a statement.
Some 81,567 people in the UK have died from COVID-19, the fifth highest official death toll in the world. More than three million people tested positive for coronavirus.
The centers include the 4,000-bed Nightingale Field Hospital, housed in the ExCel Exhibition Center in east London, the Epsom Racecourse west of the capital and a giant leisure center in Manchester.
Ambulances outside the NHS Nightingale Hospital in the ExCel Center in East London, which will also become a mass vaccination center [Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP]