UK dishes out record 400,000 second doses of Covid vaccines as figures show England has now reached 87% of all over-50s
Britain administered a record 400,000 second coronavirus vaccine doses on Wednesday, latest official figures show.
The NHS also dished out more than 241,000 first shots, taking total jabs deployed to 35.6million. The number of fully vaccinated adults stands at 4.5m.
The Government’s Covid dashboard shows 404,922 people received their second injection on Wednesday, up from around 270,000 the day before.
It marks the second day in a row more follow-up shots were put into arms than first doses after it happened for the first time on Tuesday.
Britain administered a record 400,000 second coronavirus vaccine doses on Wednesday, latest official figures show