The United Kingdom will soon offer COVID-19 vaccinations at any time of day or night in a bid to meet its aim to vaccinate 15 million people next month, the Prime Minister has said.told British politicians that the country's vaccination centers will operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week,"as soon as we can".
Johnson told opposition leader, Sir Keir Starmer, at Prime Minister's Questions that Health Secretary Matt Hancock would announce details of the 24/7 centers shortly, once the supply of enough vaccine doses is available. The U.K. has extended the period between the first and second doses of the COVID vaccine from the recommended three to four weeks to 12 weeks, in order to give more people protection from one dose.
While there is evidence from trials of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, circulation of which began on Monday, of greater efficacy among people who were given the second shot later, Pfizer/BioNTech have said there is no evidence for the efficacy of a single shot of their vaccine beyond three weeks.
The government has not yet published statistics on the supply of the vaccine into the U.K and Zahawi told the Commons Science and Technology Committee it would be"unwise and wrong" to publish details of every single vaccine that comes in. One member of the committee, Labour MP Dawn Butler, accused him of being"evasive".
Prime Minister Boris Johnson watches First Responder Caroline Cook getting her vaccination as he visits a vaccination centre in Bristol, England
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