Map reveals all Covid vaccination centres across the UK – where is your nearest?
THIS map reveals all the coronavirus vaccines sites across the UK, as more Brits gear up to have the jab.
Seven new mass vaccination sites opened today and Prime Minister Boris Johnson has vowed to open fifty more sites across the country in order to lift tough lockdown restrictions.
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Meanwhile, Matt Hancock has outlined the Government's Vaccine Delivery Plan to outline how millions of Brits will get the vaccine in the coming weeks and months.
He said so far 2.6million doses have been given to 2.3million people so far.
Two out of five care home residents have already had their first dose, as the Health Secretary vowed all care home residents will be vaccinated by the end of January.
The plan includes a colour-coded map revealing local vaccine centres including GP clinics, mass hubs and hospitals hubs.
The small green dots indicate the seven mass vaccination centres, that are located at:
- Newcastle’s Centre for Life
- Manchester Tennis and Football Centre
- Birmingham’s Millennium Point
- Epsom Racecourse in Surrey
- Robertson House in Stevenage
- Ashton Gate in Bristol
- The ExCel in London, also home to the capital's Nightingale Hospital
The 47-page plan also includes:
2million vaccines per week by end of January
The PM said last week the vaccine programme would be hugely boosted this week.
And it's hoped that 200k vaccines a day can be delivered by Friday.
That will be ramped up to 2million a week by the end of January.
All care home residents offered vaccine by the end of January
The PM has made it clear that care home staff are a priority - along with residents.
They are in the first four vulnerable groups which are being offered the vaccine in the first phase, which will eliminate a huge chunk of the deaths from Covid.
All 13.5million 'at risk' offered jab by Feb 15
Boris has vowed that all the top four more at-risk groups will be offered a slot by February 15.
- all residents in a care home for older adults and their carers
- all those 80 years of age and over and frontline health and social care workers
- all those 75 years of age and over
- all those 70 years of age and over and clinically extremely vulnerable
individuals
All 32 million over 50s and at risk groups get it this spring
After the first four groups, the attention will focus to older Brits and those with underlying health conditions who may be more vulnerable.
It may be that teachers are prioritised in this phase - but ministers haven't yet made a decision on that yet.
It's thought that after this rollout is complete, 99 per cent of deaths can be avoided.
Everyone in the UK to get a jab by the autumn
After everyone who is more vulnerable gets a vaccine, then it will be rolled out to everyone else over the age of 18 across the nation.
The Government hopes to do this before the autumn.
Matt Hancock has said in future people may have to have another dose - possibly alongside their flu jab.
Network of vaccination centres expanded
It will include 50 hubs, 206 hospitals and 1,200 GPs.
Seven hubs will open this week.
Pharmacies and mobile units, and sports grounds will also be used in the rollout.
No more than 10miles from a vaccine appointment
Everybody in Britain will live within 10 miles of a vaccination centre, or mobile vaccination unit, by the end of January.
Currently, 96% of the population in England is within 10 miles of a
vaccine service - which will be scaled up.
Nadhim Zahawi, the minister in charge of vaccine deployment, said earlier today that most people currently had “about a 45-minute drive” or less to a vaccination centre.
His aim was that no-one in the UK was “more than a 10-mile radius” from accessing a vaccine hub.
Jabs Army
An 80,000-strong army of workers and volunteers have been signed up to help deliver the jab into millions of arms across the country.
Thousands of those have signed up through The Sun's campaign.
The national vaccination effort has also been boosted by
many former clinicians, care staff, and students.
There are many other people in the UK who have vital experience and skills that can provide support like airline cabin crew, too.
Over 200,000 people have expressed their interest in playing their part in some way.
UK orders 367million doses
The UK has pre-ordered a staggering 367 million doses of vaccine to give the country the best chance of exiting the crisis as quickly as possible.
Three of these vaccines have been authorised for approval, and a further four are still in trials or going through safety checks.
The UK was the first country in the world to buy the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, ordering 40 million doses – enough for a third of the
UK population – the first to authorise it and the first to begin vaccinating people with it.
The UK was also the first country in the world to buy, authorise and provide
the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, the plan says.
Scale-up of home-grown vaccine manufacturing
Ministers have scaled up Britain’s home-grown vaccine manufacturing ability by funding new sites to produce the life-saving drug.
Delaying dose 2 of jab
Britain is delaying giving the second dose of the Covid vaccine until 12 weeks after the first jab, so millions more Brits can be inoculated quicker.
After studying all the available data, the JCVI concluded that the first dose of either Pfizer/BioNTech or Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine provides substantial protection within 2-3 weeks of vaccination from severe COVID-19 disease, the plan explained.
Hundreds of thousands of letters to over 80s are expected to go out this week - telling them to book a slot at one of at least seven max vaccination centres which are opening across the country this week.
The latest statistics on how many people have been vaccinated are also expected to be revealed at tonight's press conference.
It came as Vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said earlier that he expected there to be a huge increase in the numbers.
And he said the NHS would jab people "24/7" if they had to.
How will you be contacted?
The first batch of letters inviting elderly Brits to come and get their jab landed on doormats over the weekend.
The first 130,000 invitations were due to arrive over the weekend, with more than 500,000 to follow over the next seven days.
Walk-in appointments
Mr Zahawi today told Times Radio that he wanted to reach the point where people could simply walk into their community pharmacy or local GP to receive a vaccine.
It's all part of the Prime Minister's plans to immunise almost 14million people by mid-February, including the over-80s, care home residents and health and care staff.
Hundreds of thousands of doses per day are set to be administered by the middle of this month, Mr Johnson has said.
The Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said the Government are on course to meet the target, with over 200,000 people being vaccinated every day in England.
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NHS England national medical director Professor Stephen Powis has said ramping up of vaccination sites would help “protect even more people”.
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But he reminded the public the vaccine programme "is not going to have an impact on Covid for a few months yet".
The NHS has 39 days to meet the target set by the Prime Minister to vaccinate the most vulnerable.