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Giving covid vaccine to everyone in the UK could take a year, experts warn

15.12.2020 - 02:23

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vaccines in response to the Covid-19 pandemic was a “remarkable achievement”.But together with Professor Tim Cook, a consultant from the University of Bristol, Sir Jeremy warned there was still a long way to go.Writing in the journal Anaesthesia, they said: “The scale of the vaccination programme should not be underestimated: 1,000 vaccination centres each vaccinating 500 people a day for five days a week, without interruptions of supply or delivery, would take almost a year to provide two doses to the UK population."They added: "No country has mounted a whole population vaccination campaign in living memory and it will need to be undertaken with local leadership and cultural sensitivity.”The report appeared just a day after the first.