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The NHS has recruited TEN thousand doctors and volunteers to help administer the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine.
The government is waiting for regulators to give the jab the green light, which could happen on Monday, but 100 million doses of the vaccine have already been purchased.
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In advance, mass vaccination centers in sports arenas and conference venues are prepared, and January 4 is the target day for the launch of the vaccine, Telegraph reports.
A source told the newspaper that already: “Tens of thousands of vaccinators and support personnel have been hired.
“At the moment, we are operating everything for January 4 for the first Oxford / AstraZeneca coups d’état.”
The Sun also understands that the Government will review the priority list when the new UK vaccine is approved.
Teachers and some key workers will be eligible for the injections, which are currently only given to the elderly, clinically vulnerable, and health and home care workers.
Hundreds of emerging centers run by GPs are on the way as part of the great vaccination campaign to get the country back on track in the new year.
It comes as:
Doctors, nurses, paramedics and pharmacists will work at the centers with the goal of opening the first one next week, as the government promised to “throw out the kitchen sink” so that the British take the hit, says Daily Mail.
A government source told the newspaper: “The vaccine is the way to protect ourselves and help us overcome this pandemic. We are throwing away the kitchen sink.”
A target has reportedly been set for two million to receive their first dose of the Oxford or Pfizer vaccine within 15 days.
The long-awaited vaccine, which is being developed by the University of Oxford with the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, is seen as crucial to easing lockdown restrictions in the new year.
Last night, Chancellor Rishi Sunak issued an upbeat note when he predicted that the vaccine will finally give the UK a way out of its Covid misery after billions were spent to ensure a smooth implementation.
“There is light at the end of the tunnel with this vaccine,” he said.
“I am confident that if we all collaborate together we will overcome this as we have done this year, and we can look to a better future.
“Especially now that the agreement with our European friends and partners is finalized, that gives us a solid platform to look forward with optimism, to leave behind the divisions of the past and to embrace our future with confidence and optimism.
“As we overcome the coronavirus, we can begin to rebuild and create prosperity and opportunity for British families across the country.”
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Scientists have been working around the clock since February with trials starting in April and have managed to achieve in 10 months what normally takes years.
Implementation of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine has already begun.
But because it has to be stored at -70 ° C, it cannot be distributed as quickly as Oxford Jab, which can be kept at 2 ° C in a normal refrigerator, which means more people can be vaccinated more quickly.
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AstraZeneca boss Pascal Soriot said he believes the jab has “the winning formula” for producing a 90 percent success rate when taken in two separate doses.
Soriot said: “We think we have discovered the winning formula and how to achieve an efficacy that, after two doses, is on par with all the others.”
It said the new data will show its researchers have achieved efficacy roughly equal to that of Pfizer at 95 percent and Moderna at 94.5 percent.
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And the vaccine provides “100 percent protection” against severe Covid disease that needs hospital treatment.
The launch of the vaccine is expected to help 15 million Britons get at least one crucial injection before the end of February and lead to the lifting of restrictions.
The Oxford jab will also be administered alongside the Pfizer jab at 83 hospitals and 400 GPs that are already in operation, and another 200 GPs will be online this weekend.
Patients will need two strokes, a month apart, and will be able to get the first one at emerging sites, including soccer stadiums and self-service centers.
News that the vaccine could be rolled out next week might not come soon enough for millions of Britons living on Level 4.
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The number of people in the strict restrictions increased from six million to 24 million people, 43 percent of the population, in an attempt to stop the spread of the mutant Covid.
Scientists warn that all of England “must be brought to Level 4 immediately” to stop the spread of the mutant strain of coronavirus affecting the country.
The Independent Sage, which provides independent advice to the UK government, has said that thousands more will be infected in the new year.
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