Prisoners in England should start being offered coronavirus vaccines from today, the prisons minister has confirmed. Lucy Frazer confirmed that people in prisons in England would begin getting jabs from today - and the process had already begun in Wales.
A total of 4,800 prisoners have contracted the virus and at least 71 inmates have died since the start of the pandemic. According to the Ministry of Justice, there were 2,400 positive cases recorded in December, a rise of nearly 70% in a single month.
Quizzed about the roll out of vaccines in prisons, Ms Frazer said that they were underway in Wales and would begin in England today.
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