Over-50s, health and social care workers and the clinically vulnerable will also have their second doses accelerated from 12 to eight weeks 'where supply will allow'. The plans to speed up second doses would require another 10million doses are handed out to over-50s in the next few weeks. Some 204,192 first vaccine doses were given out yesterday, taking the total number of people to have had at least one jab to 36.3million. Second doses came to 379,111, taking the total to 19.7million. Chris Whitty said: 'The prioritisation of second doses will not, we think, delay the situation, the rollout, for people who are in younger ages.'

Source: Daily Mail May 15, 2021 16:06 UTC