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Tony Blair, the former Labour prime minister, has said the young should be vaccinated early in places with an upsurge in Covid cases. Backing the approach being taken formally in Glasgow (see 11.16am), and informally in Bolton, he told Times Radio:
I think, yes, absolutely you should take a differentiated approach, which is perfectly natural as you get into the final stages of the vaccination rollout. There are some areas, that will be bigger priorities than others, and it’s probably sensible when you go into those areas not simply to vaccinate the risk population, which is usually the more elderly population, but also to make sure that you’re reaching the younger people as well who can spread it.
Taking a more varied approach to the way we do the vaccine rollout at this stage, given the problems and the challenge of Indian variant, is absolutely sensible.
Britain has come top of an international survey of places where people are willing to have the coronavirus vaccine, YouGov says.
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