Minister Zahawi expresses confidence in achieving Herculean vaccine target in UK
Minister Zahawi expresses confidence in achieving Herculean vaccine target in UK
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Nadhim Zahawi the UK Minister for COVID Vaccine Deployment said the Herculean vaccine target, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s aim to vaccinate around 14 million of the most vulnerable people against COVID-19 by the middle of February 2021 is achievable. Britain which is highly hit by Covid 19 new strain is rushing to vaccinate its population faster than the United States and the rest of Europe, although Russia and China have been inoculating their citizens for months. 

People hope vaccine is the main way out of the COVID-19 crisis which has killed 1.87 million people, destroyed whole swathes of the global economy and suspended normal life for billions of people across the world. PM has set a target of vaccinating the elderly, including care home residents, the clinically vulnerable and frontline workers comes around 14 million people by mid-February. To an interrogative question , is it achievable, UK minister for Vaccine deployment said yes it is. 

“It is a Herculean effort,” he told a news agency, adding that it was stretching but deliverable. He said that 1/4 of people over 80 years old had already been vaccinated with their first shot. So far, More than 1.3 million people in the United Kingdom have been vaccinated against COVID-19. UK the world's first country to roll out vaccine developed by Pfizer-BioNTech, this week became the first country in the world to start deploying the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University. 

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