Seven Mondays will open on Monday as the British government accelerates efforts to combat the spreading virus.
The British government will open seven mass vaccination centers on Monday as part of efforts to accelerate the deployment of COVID-19 inoculations that the government wants to deliver to all vulnerable people by the middle of next month.
The country, which was the first to approve vaccines developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca, currently immunizes about 200,000 people a day, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Sunday.
Some 1.3 million people had received the first dose of two-dose vaccination as of January 3, according to government data, but the UK needs to inoculate two million people a week to meet its goal of vaccinating those who they are in care homes. 70s, clinically vulnerable people with pre-existing conditions and health and care workers before February 15th.
Britain is counting on its hopes of rapid immunization to allow life to begin to return to a certain degree of normalcy in the spring of the northern hemisphere, even as it faces a rapidly rising pandemic.
In addition to the seven major centers, Britain also uses 1,000 clinics, 223 hospitals and 200 community pharmacies to administer vaccines, Vaccine Deployment Minister Nadhim Zahawi said in a statement. The armed forces will also be deployed in support of the National Health Service.
Ellen Prosser, 100, known as Nell, receives the first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in a nursing home in London. The UK wants all household residents over the age of 70, vulnerable people and health workers to receive the vaccine by mid-February [Kirsty O’Connor/Pool Photo via AP Photo]
“Working together, day and night, will ensure that our vaccines take up arms instead of sitting on the shelves,” Zahawi said. “British forces will use techniques derived from decades of experience to get things done in some of the toughest conditions imaginable. They will bring the courage and brilliance they showed in places like Iraq and Afghanistan to these shores.”
Health Secretary Matt Hancock will present his vaccination plan against COVID-19, the largest vaccination program in British history, on Monday.
“The UK vaccine delivery plan will be the key to getting out of the pandemic, but we must all continue to play our part by staying home, following the rules and keeping our hands, face, space at the forefront of our minds when we go outside. and about, “he said in a statement.
Some 81,567 people in the UK have died due to COVID-19, the fifth highest official death toll in the world. More than three million people have tested positive for coronavirus.
Centers include the 4,000-bed Nightingale Camp Hospital set up at the ExCel Exhibition Center in east London, the Epsom Racecourse in the west of the capital and a giant leisure center in Manchester.
Ambulances outside the NHS Nightingale Hospital at ExCel in East London, which will also become a mass vaccination center [Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP]