Government launches COVID-19 vaccine delivery plan Coronavirus Social care update
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The Government has published a UK Covid-19 vaccines delivery plan, setting out how the largest vaccination programme in British history will be delivered.
The plan commits to offering the first vaccine dose to all those in the top four priority groups as recommended by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), by 15 February 2021. This includes residents in care homes for older adults, care home workers, people over 80 years of age and all eligible frontline community-based social care workers.
With these groups accounting for 88 percent of COVID-19 fatalities, the move will prevent thousands of deaths once their immunity develops in 14 days.
By the end of January, everyone in England will be within 10 miles of a vaccination site or, for a small number of highly rural areas, the vaccine will be brought to them via mobile teams.
There will also be capacity to deliver at least 2 million vaccinations in England per week by the end of January and all residents and staff in over 10,000 care homes across the country will be offered a vaccine by the end of the month.
By getting vaccinated, staff can protect themselves from becoming seriously ill from COVID-19, allowing them to continue to be there for their family, friends and the people they care for.
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