Boris Johnson lockdown statement as Prime Minister urges public to be 'optimistic but patient'

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Prime Minister said: “We want this lockdown to be the last. And we want progress to be cautious but also irreversible.”Johnson said there were still more hospital patients with Covid-19 than at the peak of the first wave and admissions were running at 1,600 a day across the UK.He said: “We have to keep our foot to the floor.”The next million invitation letters were offering appointments for a vaccine to the over-65s and those aged 16-64 with underlying conditions, as well as adult carers.“If we can keep this pace up and if we can keep supply steady – and I hope and believe we can – then we hope to offer a vaccination to everyone in the first nine priority groups, including everyone over 50, by the end of April.”He added there were “grounds.