{"id":153884,"date":"2021-01-14T00:20:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T21:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/britains-johnson-pledges-uk-vaccine-program-will-run-24-7\/"},"modified":"2021-01-14T00:20:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T21:20:31","slug":"britains-johnson-pledges-uk-vaccine-program-will-run-24-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/britains-johnson-pledges-uk-vaccine-program-will-run-24-7\/","title":{"rendered":"#Britain\u2019s Johnson pledges UK vaccine program will run 24-7"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Britain\u2019s Johnson pledges UK vaccine program will run 24-7<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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LONDON \u2014 Britain\u2019s coronavirus vaccine program will operate around the clock seven days a week \u201cas soon as we can,\u201d Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged Wednesday as the U.K. accelerates efforts to inoculate millions of its most vulnerable people against coronavirus.<\/p>\n

Johnson said \u201cat the moment, the limit is on supply\u201d of the vaccines rather than on the ability of the country\u2019s health service to deliver jabs quickly. The push to inoculate millions quickly comes as a more contagious variant of COVID-19 is sweeping across Britain and driving hospitals to their breaking points.<\/p>\n

His comments came as the government said 1,564 more people had died within 28 days of testing positive, the highest figure reported in Britain on a single day since the pandemic began. Britain already had Europe\u2019s highest COVID-19 death toll.<\/p>\n

The U.K. is under an indefinite national lockdown to curb the spread of the new variant, with nonessential shops, gyms and hairdressers closed, most people working from home and schools largely offering remote learning. But some are calling for even tougher measures.<\/p>\n

Scotland\u2019s leader, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, tightened restrictions Wednesday, barring the consumption of alcohol outdoors and barring the public from going inside businesses to collect takeaway orders.<\/p>\n

The U.K. government has set a goal of delivering the first vaccine dose to everyone over age 70, as well as frontline health care workers, nursing home residents and anyone whose health makes them especially vulnerable to the virus, by the middle of February. That\u2019s more than 15 million people.<\/p>\n

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An almost empty Bank district of London, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021 during England\u2019s third national lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus. <\/figcaption>
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Vaccinations will be given at hundreds of doctors\u2019 offices and community pharmacies, 50 mass vaccination sites at convention centers and sports stadiums, as well as at 223 hospitals.<\/p>\n

Britain is already using the COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca and has app<\/a>roved one made by Moderna, but that one is not expected to be delivered until spring.<\/p>\n

The pace of the country\u2019s vaccination drive remains a constant source of discussion.<\/p>\n

Johnson\u2019s comments came as his vaccines minister, Nadhim Zahawi, testified before a parliamentary committee that the government now had \u201cline of sight\u201d of deliveries to the end of February but sidestepped questions about week-by-week vaccine deliveries.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn any manufacturing process, especially one where you\u2019re dealing with a biological compound, a novel vaccine, is lumpy at the outset,\u201d he told the Commons Science<\/a> and Technology<\/a> Committee. \u201cThere\u2019s no doubt that it was, but getting better. \u2026 We have millions of doses coming through in the weeks and then next month and the month after.\u201d<\/p>\n

The challenge, Zahawi said, was not just getting vaccine shots into people\u2019s arms, but the difficulty of reaching vulnerable people. Greater daily volumes of inoculations could be achieved if specific groups weren\u2019t targeted, he said.<\/p>\n

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Ambulances queue at the Royal London Hospital in London, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021 during England\u2019s third national lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus. <\/figcaption>
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In a reflection of the frantic demand, Mene Pangalos, executive vice president of biopharmaceuticals research and development at AstraZeneca, asked the committee to help gain permission for people working in the vaccine process to get priority for the COVID-19 shots.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things that I\u2019m worried about is actually maintaining a continuous supply and work on this vaccine,\u201d he said as he appealed for workers to be immunized. \u201cIf you have an outbreak at one of the centers \u2014 which we\u2019ve had actually \u2014 or in one of the groups in Oxford working on new variants, or the people that are working on the regulatory files, everything stops.\u2033<\/p>\n

The government is desperately trying to protect people with vaccines before hospitals are overwhelmed with cases of the new, more infections virus variant.<\/p>\n

Johnson said \u201cthe risk is very substantial\u201d of intensive care capacity being outstrip<\/a>ped. He said hospitals in England were treating about 32,000 COVID-19 patients, about 70% more than during the first peak in April.<\/p>\n

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He said there are \u201csome early signs\u201d that recent lockdown measures were reducing transmission of the virus, but it was \u201cfar, far too early\u201d to ease the restrictions.<\/p>\n

England\u2019s health care system may move patients into hotels to ease the pressure on hospitals struggling to handle rising COVID-19 admissions.<\/p>\n

Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Wednesday that the National Health Service was looking at ways to reduce the strain on hospitals, including moving patients to hotels when appropriate.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would only ever do that if it was clinically the right thing for somebody,\u201d Hancock told Sky News<\/a>. \u201cIn some cases, people need sit-down care, they don\u2019t actually need to be in a hospital bed.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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