Deployment comes amid claims family doctors have been told to ‘stand down’ routine care

GP surgeries in England begin administering the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine from Thursday amid claims family doctors have been instructed to “stand down” routine care to prioritise inoculation.

The deployment comes after the UK daily reported death toll topped 1,000 and London’s hospitals were said to be on the brink of being overwhelmed.

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