direct to your inbox The Ministry of Justice has said prisoners will not get preferential treatment for a coronavirus jab amid reports serial killer Levi Bellfield has been invited for a vaccine.
More than 6.3 million vaccines have been given in the UK so far - 5.9 million of these first doses - with those aged over 70, health and social care workers and clinically extremely vulnerable people highest in the priority list.And it emerged today that three-quarters of those over 80 in the UK have received a vaccine dose.The Sun reported Bellfield, serving two whole life orders for the murders of Marsha McDonnell, Amelie Delagrange and Milly Dowler, has been told he and other inmates at high-security Frankland Prison in County Durham could be.
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