MORE than one million Brits have had the Covid vaccine, Matt Hancock revealed this morning.
The Health Secretary rejoiced that the “end is in sight” as the country reached the milestone in the fight against the deadly virus.
Mr Hancock tweeted: “Huge THANK YOU to everyone playing their part in the national effort to beat coronavirus.
“Over a million people have been vaccinated already.
“With the vaccine roll-out accelerating, the end is in sight & we will get through this together.”
This comes as Trending In The News launched an appeal for 50,000 volunteers to help at Covid vaccination centres – in order to get as many people inoculated as possible.
We’ve called on our readers to join Jabs Army to made sure 15million people get vaccinated by March.
Britain ended 2020 with the good news that the Oxford vaccine is now approved for use – with the first jabs expected to be rolled on Monday.
This means the UK has enough vaccine doses to immunise the entire population – with 24 million people to get the jab before Easter.
At least one million Pfizer doses and some 530,000 Oxford doses will likely be given to patients across the country next week, according to reports.
ONE MILLION BRITS VACCINATED
And by the middle of January, two million doses of the Oxford vaccine are expected to be supplied weekly, a source told The Times.
A member of the Oxford/AstraZeneca team said: “The plan is to build it up fairly rapidly – by the third week of January we should get two million a week.”
Despite fears that there is a “shortage” of doses available to Brits, both Pfizer and Oxford/AstraZeneca have rubbished the claims.
The good news comes as 53,285 new cases of the virus were recorded in the UK yesterday – signalling a 63 per cent increase in a week.
It was the fourth day in a row the figure has broken 50,000 and brought the total number of positive tests in Britain to 2,542,065.
Another 613 more people died from the bug in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of fatalities to 74,125.
The figures come as the UK entered 2021 under a host of restrictions, with almost all of England now living under Tier 3 and 4 restrictions.
While millions stayed home to stop the spread of the deadly bug, hundreds joined illegal parties in Birmingham, Essex, Manchester and London.
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