Boris Johnson addresses EU ‘demand’ for coronavirus vaccines

The coronavirus vaccination programme is underway in Britain with more than seven million people having received the first dose of the vaccine in the UK so far. Speaking from the House of Commons on January 27, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the country will not be “free” until enough vaccinations have been administered. Express.co.uk has compiled a guide to show you when you might get the vaccine.

Mr Johnson announced the UK is on track to meet its target of vaccinating the top four priority groups outlined by the Joint Committee on Vaccinations and Immunisations (JCVI).

• Residents in a care home for older adults and their carers
• All those aged 80 years of age and over. Front line health and social care workers
• All those aged 75 years of age and over
• All those aged 70 years of age and over. Clinically extremely vulnerable individuals
• All those aged 65 years of age and over
• All those individuals aged 16 years of age to 64 years with underlying health conditions that put them at higher risk of serious disease and mortality
• All those 60 years of age and over
• All those 55 years of age and over
• All those 50 years of age and over.
• The rest of the population.

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The UK Government wants to vaccinate the top four priority groups by mid-February.

This equates to 15 million people in the UK.

AstraZeneca chief executive Pascal Soriot claimed 30 million people in the UK will get a dose of the vaccine “by March”.

The UK’s official target is to provide the first dose to all 32 million people in the top priority groups by the end of April.

But Mr Soriot suggested this target may be hit much sooner.

Speaking to Italian newspaper La Repubblica Mr Soriot said: “By March, the UK will have vaccinated maybe 28 or 30 million people.

“The Prime Minister has a goal to vaccinate 15 million people by mid-February, and they’re already at 6.5 million. So they will get there.”

According to the Government’s coronavirus dashboard, 7,164,387 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccine up to and including January 26, with another 474,156 having received the second dose as well.

The vaccination programme began on December 8 and according to the NHS, in the week ending December 27, 243,039 people had received the Covid-19 vaccine in England – taking the total number to 786,000.

Each of the vaccine priority groups outlined by the JCVI is as follows with the following population numbers:

• Residents in a care home for older adults and their carers – 1,098,000 people.
• All those aged 80 years of age and over. Front line health and social care workers – 5,062,000 people.
• All those aged 75 years of age and over – 2,325,296 people.
• All those aged 70 years of age and over. Clinically extremely vulnerable individuals – 3,318,867 people.
• All those aged 65 years of age and over – 3,368,199 people.
• All those individuals aged 16 years of age to 64 years with underlying health conditions that put them at higher risk of serious disease and mortality – 2,200,000 people.
• All those 60 years of age and over – 3,755,185 people.
• All those 55 years of age and over – 4,405,908 people.
• All those 50 years of age and over – 4,661,015 people.
• The rest of the population 0 41,599,738 people.

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In the week ending January 17, 1,560,543 more people were reported to have received an NHS vaccination for coronavirus in England.

This took the total number of people vaccinated since vaccinations began on December 8, to

3,557,847 and the total vaccinations given to 3,981,445.

Of the vaccinations provided over this time, 2,005,459 were provided to people aged

80 years old or over, which is 50 percent of the total vaccinations given.

The total number of people vaccinated in the UK by Sunday, January 24, according to the Government’s Coronavirus dashboard was 6,573,570.

Using the Government’s coronavirus dashboard to calculate an average for daily totals of the first dose of vaccine for the past week – the UK is vaccinating on average 363,950 people a day.

Taking this rate into account, each of the priority groups will begin to receive the vaccine around the following dates:

• Group 4 – January 31
• Group 5 – February 9
• Group 6 – February 19
• Group 7 – February 25
• Group 8 – March 7
• Group 9 – March 19
• Group 10 – April 1.

Where am I in the vaccine queue?

You can also use this vaccine calculator tool here to check where you might be in the vaccine queue.

The tool provides an estimate of where you are in the queue based on the Government’s nine-point priority list.

In order to work out when you might get the vaccine, you will be asked to submit some information about yourself, including your age, whether you are a care home resident, pregnant, a health worker or an unpaid carer.

In addition, you will be asked if you were advised to shield during lockdown and if you have any underlying health conditions included on this list.

The results will show how many people are likely ahead of you in the queue and will give an estimated time frame when you will receive your first and second dose of the vaccine.

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