Health officials say the coronavirus jab rollout is on track for every adult in the UK to have had two doses by September. Every adult could be vaccinated by August or September, the head of the country's jabs taskforce has said.
The UK has given 15.6 million people a first dose and 546,165 a second, in the fastest roll-out per capita of any large country. "We're probably talking August time or September time all done, maybe sooner if we need to," Clive Dix told Sky News on Tuesday.
The UK is in a race to vaccinate the most vulnerable members of the population as new mutant variants of the virus emerge. Nearly 118,000 people have died of Covid-19 in the UK.
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