PHE source defends decision to offer excess doses of Covid vaccine to non-priority lab staff as a ‘pragmatic solution’

More than 100 Public Health England workers have been given a Covid jab despite not falling into any of the priority categories, the Guardian can reveal.

The decision to vaccinate staff at PHE’s site in Porton Down, Wiltshire has raised questions internally at the agency about how those involved were allowed to jump the queue for their first doses of the vaccine.

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