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Nearly a quarter of Britain’s most vulnerable age group has already been vaccinated against the coronavirus, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday.
Johnson told a press conference in Downing Street that the two vaccines currently on the market, the vaccines developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, and the University of Oxford and the pharmaceutical group AstraZeneca, had 1.1 million in England and 1.3 million. in the UK as a whole on Tuesday. people were vaccinated.
More than 650,000 people in the English population over the age of 80 have been vaccinated against the coronavirus. This means that in England, the most populous part of the faraway country of the United Kingdom, 23 per cent of members of this age group have been vaccinated and will have significant protection against coronavirus infection in two to three weeks, emphasized the British Prime Minister.
Added:
the average age of Covid-19 coronavirus deaths is over 80 years old,
and it also shows what was the right decision to put together a vaccination program designed to save as many lives as possible as quickly as possible.
Boris Johnson hinted that the UK Government’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (JCVI) had drawn up a priority list of the order in which each population could access the vaccine before the start of the vaccination campaign on December 8.
According to the 25-page guide, the list is headed by nursing home residents and their caregivers over the age of 80, as well as those working on the front lines of healthcare and care services, followed chronologically by 75, 70 , 65, 60, 55, finally, follow those over 50 years.
Those older than 65 include those ages 16 to 64 who have an underlying chronic disease.
which increases the risk of serious complications or death from coronavirus infection.
Jonathan Van-Tam, England’s deputy chief medical officer, recently told BBC television that if particularly vulnerable groups of the population were to receive the coronavirus vaccine in large quantities,
deaths from Covid-19 disease and the number of coronavirus patients requiring hospitalization can be reduced by up to 99 percent.
Boris Johnson said at a Downing Street briefing on Tuesday night that the British Public Health Service (NHS) had set a target that by February 15, all members of the top four risk groups on the list JCVI priorities would receive the coronavirus vaccine.
This means that by the middle of next month, all residents and caregivers in nursing homes, all members of the British population over the age of 70, those working on the front lines of care and health networks and those at particular risk of chronic disease will be vaccinated against the coronavirus. said the British Prime Minister.
Johnson emphasized:
By the end of this week, there will be about a thousand vaccination centers across the country, and next week mass vaccines will be launched in seven stadiums and exhibition centers.
So far, the UK government has immobilized 50 million doses of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine and hundreds of millions of doses of the Oxford / AstraZeneca vaccine.
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