By Who will get the vaccine and when?
A mass vaccination programme unlike any other in history is now set to begin across the UK – but who will be first in the queue?
Health secretary Matt Hancock said this morning the Government will publish guidance setting out how the Covid vaccine will be prioritised among the population.
However experts have already drawn up a provisional priority list, with care home residents and staff at the top.
They will receive the first stocks of the vaccine – some as soon as next week.
Mass immunisation of everyone over 50, as well as younger people with pre-existing health conditions, can happen as more stocks become available in 2021.
It is given as two injections, 21 days apart, with the second dose being a booster.
In September, a draft priority list was published by the Joint Committee on Vaccinations and Immunisations (JCVI) who said: “The committee strongly agree that a simple age-based programme will likely result in faster delivery and better uptake in those at the highest risk.”
Here is the provisional priority list:
- Older adults resident in a care home and care home workers
- All those 80 years of age and over and health and social care workers
- All those 75 years of age and over
- All those 70 years of age and over
- All those 65 years of age and over
- High-risk adults under 65 years of age
- Moderate-risk adults under 65 years of age
- All those 60 years of age and over
- All those 55 years of age and over
- All those 50 years of age and over
- Rest of the population (priority to be determined)
