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Coffeehouse Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Isabel Hardman and this is the Sunday

Roundup. The Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab joined Andrew Marr this morning and the first item on the

agenda was the rollout of the COVID vaccine.

Ma asked Rob if there was any truth to the rumours that all adults could be vaccinated as early as June.

Well, the plan, as you know, is, and we're making good progress. We've had three and a half million people administer their first dose.

The rate, the daily rate is up to over 300,000 on the latest figures. And the plan is to get the first 15 million most vulnerable people vaccinated with the first dose by the middle of February. We then want to get by early spring another 17 million. At that point, we'll have 99% of those most

at risk of dying of coronavirus administered their first jab. And then the adult population,

the entire adult population, we want to have been offered a first jab by September. That's

the roadmap. The answer is no, basically. It won't be done by June. It'll be done by

September. What I was just going to say is that's the roadmap. We think we've got the capacity

to deliver it. Obviously, if it can be done more swiftly than that, then that's a bonus. The number

one thing right now is to protect that roadmap and that rollout and protect the NHS, given the new

variance and the transmission rates we've seen NHS, given the new variants and the transmission

rates we've seen.

Rob had the following to say on when the national lockdown might be lifted.

I think it's true to say that when we get to a situation in the early spring, perhaps March,

if we've succeeded in hitting those targets and we've made progress so far, we can start

to think about the phased

transition out of the national lockdown. I think it's fair to say it won't be a big bang,

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