THE NHS is being urged to speed up the coronavirus vaccine roll out and try to give as many second doses as soon as possible as the spread of the Indian variant accelerates. Officials have told al…
Where the UK is now, and where it is headed. The orange areas are shaded on the probability they will see case rates of 100 per 100,000 people that weekSources have claimed that people will received their second jabs soonerBut some people in their late 40s and early 50s are now being invited for their second jab after just six weeks, theThe government's plan to lift all restrictions by June 21 is reportedly “on a knife edge” due to the rapid spread of the indian variant.
The Medicines and Healthcare products REgulatory agency has recommended that the gap between doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine should be around four and 12 weeks. PHE said in a statement: "Hospital attendances and admissions are predominantly in unvaccinated individuals, highlighting how crucial it is that people in these areas come forward to receive vaccination."
A SAGE source told the i the “most likely outcome is 21 June still holds”, but added: “We need to see individual NHS trust admissions top out clearly and local infection levels fall in places like Bolton.” Three per cent of infections were in people who had been given both doses of the vaccine, while nearly 73 per cent of all cases were in completely unvaccinated people and the rest in those who had had one jab.