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Sophie Ridge interviewed the vaccine's minister Nadine Zahari. Ridge asked Zahawi about the possibility that all of the government's priority groups

could have been offered a vaccine by the end of May.

Elite letter from Government Advisor this week said the vast majority of adults will have received

a COVID jab by the end of May. So are we on track for that to happen?

Well, the limiting factor is vaccine supply. So vaccine supply remains finite.

I can tell you that yesterday, between 11 and 12 o'clock, we almost got to a thousand jabs

a minute.

We got to 979 jabs a minute.

So the deployment infrastructure of which GPs are absolutely the backbone of this whole deployment,

with hospital hubs, national vaccination centres. Now we have 100 national vaccination centres and 200 pharmacies.

The deployment infrastructure can do the volumes that we'll get through. I'm confident we'll meet

our mid-February target of the top four cohorts. I'm also confident

because I have enough line of sight of the deliveries that are coming through that will also

meet the one to nine cohorts by May and we'll say more about that next week when we hit

the first target, I hope well it's a tough target by

the way many many people who are clinically extremely vulnerable have to be reached by the GP

some of them can't travel we have to go to their home we set up a drive-through in

st. Toulbans yesterday and the emotion there was extraordinary so if people who are

clinically extremely vulnerable shielding could come in their car

and get that first dose was amazing. Ridge pointed to statistics showing that minority groups are

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