1.3 million people have now had been given coronavirus vaccine jabs, Boris Johnson has confirmed.

The UK began vaccinating peole in December 2020, first with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and then with the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab, which was approved later.

The Prime Minister said that of the 1.3 million people in the UK – 1.1 million had been given jabs in England. He told a No 10 press conference the figures includes 650,000 people over the age of 80, which was 23% of all the over 80s in England.

‘That means nearly one-in-four of the most vulnerable groups will have in two to three weeks a significant degree of immunity,’ he said.

‘That is why I believe the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation was right to draw up a programme saving the most lives the fastest.’

England’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor Chris Whitty, added that the timetable for vaccinating people was realistic but not easy.

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