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Around 300 GPs are preparing to join the mass vaccination program against coronavirus next week.
The launch of Pfizer / BioNTech began Tuesday in hospitals across the UK.
Matt Hancock said later the same day that the first 800,000 doses are in locations across the UK and that the next batch of doses, believed to be around 1 million, will arrive next week.
The Secretary of Health added that the family doctors will also begin to vaccinate from next week and the vaccines will be given in the residences for Christmas.
Professor Chris Whitty, England’s chief medical officer, told MPs on Wednesday that around 20 million people will need to be vaccinated according to the priority list before they can consider lifting the restrictions.
He said: “This disease is predictably much more dangerous than for older people and people with pre-existing health conditions.
“Once we’ve gone through the first list that brings us to roughly 20 million people, there will be some broader options on where we go from there.
“Those will be important ethical and political choices, as well as clinical choices.
“Once you get to that stage, I think a conversation about what we want to do next becomes a really important conversation.”
A warning about the first Covid-19 vaccine was also issued on Wednesday after regulators said that people with a history of ‘significant’ allergic reactions should not currently receive the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine.
Two NHS staff members who received the vaccine on the first day of the mass vaccination program suffered an allergic reaction, the NHS England confirmed.
The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has given cautionary advice to the NHS trusts that anyone who has a history of “significant” allergic reactions to drugs, foods or vaccines should not receive the vaccine.
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