Our plan sets out how we will expand and accelerate our rollout, creating the largest vaccination programme in British history, with:
• 206 active hospital sites
• 50 large vaccination centres
• 1,200 local vaccination sites
All meaning that by the end of the month everyone in England will be within 10 miles of a site or have a vaccine brought to them in highly remote areas.
And by mobilising a workforce of over 80,000 from the NHS, armed forces, and government, with the support of potentially over 200,000 members of the public, we can commit to the following timetable:
1) End of January – all residents and staff in over 10,000 care homes across the country will be offered a vaccine.
2) February 15th – all those in the top four priority groups, who account for 88% of fatalities, will be offered a first dose.
3) Spring – all nine high-risk groups for phase one of the programme (32 million people accounting for 99% of deaths) will be vaccinated.
4) Autumn – All UK adults will have been offered a vaccine.
32m by the spring.
If we put this in context, France intends to have 500-600 vaccine centres in the next month or two.