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(Reuters) – Britain’s National Health Service on Sunday denied a media report claiming it had not committed to giving two million COVID-19 injections a week.
The Daily Telegraph newspaper had said that the NHS refused to commit due to vaccine supply and logistics problems, including creating an army of vaccinators to deliver the largest vaccination program in history. An NHS spokeswoman told Reuters that “the story is not true.”
“As the CMO has said, the main barrier to vaccine delivery will be the availability of the vaccine, and it is completely untrue that staffing limitations are currently getting in the way of the vaccine launch, with the NHS ready to deliver. the vaccine as the supply becomes available, ”the spokeswoman said in an email.
“The NHS is off to a good start vaccinating one million people and is now beginning the rapid deployment of Oxford-AstraZeneca, which will allow us to vaccinate millions more with the support of tens of thousands of vaccinators,” the spokesperson added.
Britain has been at the forefront in approving new coronavirus vaccines, becoming last month the first country to grant emergency clearance to the Pfizer / BioNTech and AstraZeneca / University of Oxford vaccines.
Manufacturers insist that the doses are delivered according to the schedule agreed with the government, The Telegraph reported.
Report of Nandakumar D in Bengaluru; Edited by Chris Reese and Lincoln Feast.
