Second Covid-19 vaccine doses will be accelerated for the over-50s and vulnerable people, Boris Johnson has announced. Some 10 million people could see their second doses delivered within eight weeks of their first, rather than 12 weeks.
It comes amid rising concern over the Indian variant of Covid-19, which is surging in London, Merseyside and the North West.
The Prime Minister warned the Indian coronavirus variant could "pose a serious disruption" to plans to ease restrictions and "could make it more difficult" to end them as hoped in June.
He told the Downing Street press conference: "I do not believe that we need, on the present evidence, to delay our road map and we will proceed with our plan to move to step three in England from
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