Coronavirus: the UK’s plan to vaccinate 11 million people in five weeks

Seven NHS vaccination hubs opening today in ‘vitally important week’

An NHS nurse prepares a Covid-19 vaccination
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Seven new mass vaccination centres are opening their doors this morning as the NHS ramps up efforts to inoculate a total of at least 13 million people against Covid-19 by mid-February.

Around two million people in the UK have already received the jabs, according to latest figures, with the initial push focused on vaccinating the over-80s and front-line health and care staff.

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.