Latest updates: government says it has hit target of offering all care home residents in England a first jab
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Vic Rayner, the executive director of the National Care Forum, which represents not-for-profit care home providers, told Sky News this morning that just 27% of its member organisations had 70% or more of their staff vaccinated as of early last week, adding that access to doses was the main issue. She said:
The priority over the next two weeks is to get the vaccine out to 1.6 million people who work across care. So it is a big, big task and a big clock is ticking away around that.
Scotland has entered the second phase of its plan to give the population a vaccine to combat coronavirus with two new mass vaccination centres opening today. As PA Media reports, the facilities at Aberdeen’s P&J Live venue and the Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC) will be able to inoculate an extra 27,000 people per week. The EICC will have capacity to vaccinate more than 21,000 people a week at 45 stations, while the Aberdeen site will start with 20 booths to accommodate around 6,000 people weekly.
