Coronavirus: who should be vaccinated next? 

The UK has hit its target for vaccinating the most vulnerable – but questions linger over who should be prioritised

A patient receives his Covid-19 jab at a vaccination centre in Salisbury Cathedral
A patient receives his Covid-19 jab at a vaccination centre in Salisbury Cathedral
(Image credit: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Vageesh Jain, NIHR academic clinical fellow in public health medicine at University College London (UCL), and Paula Lorgelly, professor of health economics at UCL, on the vaccination race.

The UK has met its target of offering a first Covid-19 vaccine dose to its top four priority groups by mid-February. All people over 70, frontline health and care staff, care home residents and extremely clinically vulnerable people have been offered a vaccine, with more than 15 million people having now taken a first dose.

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