Four key pieces of data as the UK hits 15m vaccinations target

Jab campaign extends to over-65s and some younger people after most at-risk receive first dose

Staff prepare the Pfizer Covid vaccine at Salisbury Cathedral
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(Image credit: Staff prepare the Pfizer Covid vaccine at Salisbury Cathedral)

The UK’s vaccine campaign is being expanded to include over-65s and younger people in vulnerable groups from today after hitting an initial target to administer 15 million first doses to the most at risk.

Boris Johnson said that the country had achieved “an extraordinary feat” in having delivered coronavirus jabs “into the arms” of members of the top four priority groups in less than ten weeks.

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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.