England has already offered the vaccine to all the elderly in nursing homes

This content was published on 01 February 2021 – 10:26
01 February 2021 – 10:26

London, Feb 1 (EFE) .- British health authorities have already offered the covid-19 vaccine to all elderly living in residences in England, the National Health Service (NHS, for its acronym in English) announced on Monday ).

The British Government has set itself the goal of vaccinating 15 million people – those who are most at risk of death if they contract the virus – by this February 15.

The NHS in England said this Monday that the elderly in more than 10,000 residences have received the offer so that all those elderly who want to be vaccinated could receive the preparation of Pfizer / BioNTech or that of Oxford / AstraZeneca.

This past Saturday, 598,389 people were vaccinated across the UK, a record for a single day since the country began its immunization plan on December 8, 2020.

To date, almost nine million people have been vaccinated in the country and the Government hopes to be able to vaccinate the entire adult population by September.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has indicated that vaccination in residences represents a “crucial milestone” and “the route” to overcome the pandemic, although he warned, in statements to the media, that there are “difficult times ahead “because the number of people hospitalized is still” dangerously high. “

In Scotland, authorities expect to complete the vaccination of residences by February 5, while 75% of those in Wales have already received the offer of the vaccine, while Northern Ireland has completed immunization in residences.

The United Kingdom already exceeds 100,000 deaths since the beginning of the crisis a year ago, and it is the great country that has registered the most deaths per million inhabitants. EFE

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