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With hope high for vaccine, Britain prepares to roll it out - Associated Press

With hope high for vaccine, Britain prepares to roll it out - Associated Press

With hope high for vaccine, Britain prepares to roll it out - Associated Press
Nov 25, 2020 1 min, 33 secs

“If we can roll it out at a good lick … then with a favorable wind, this is entirely hypothetical, but we should be able to inoculate, I believe on the evidence I’m seeing, the vast majority of the people who need the most protection by Easter,” Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Monday after vaccine makers in recent weeks have announced encouraging results.

The British government has agreed to purchase up to 355 million doses of vaccine from seven different producers, as it prepares to vaccinate as many of the country’s 67 million people as possible.

The National Health Service is making plans to administer 88.5 million vaccine doses throughout England, according to a planning document dated Nov.

The first to be vaccinated would be health care workers and nursing home residents, followed by older people, starting with those over 80, according to the document, first reported by the London-based Health Service Journal.

While most of the injections would be delivered at around 1,000 community vaccination centers, about a third would go to 40 to 50 “large-scale mass vaccination centers,” including stadiums, conference centers and similar venues, the document indicates.

The NHS confirmed the document was genuine but said details and target dates are always changing because the vaccination program is a work in progress.

The German government has asked regional authorities to get special vaccination centers ready by mid-December.

France, meanwhile, has reserved 90 million vaccine doses, but has not yet laid out its plan for mass vaccination.

A government spokesman said last week that authorities were working to identify locations for vaccination centers, choose companies to transport vaccines and set the rules for shipping and storage.

Spain hopes to vaccinate some 2.5 million people in the first stage between January and March and have most of the vulnerable population covered by mid-year.

AstraZeneca on Monday reported interim results of its vaccine developed with Oxford researchers that were also encouraging.

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