A 24 hour vaccination roll out will be piloted in London by the end of the month, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi has announced.
He said moves could be made to expand the scheme after it is trialled hospitals in the capital and said the trial would ‘absolutely’ have begun before February.
Mr Zahawi told Sky News: ‘We are going to pilot the 24-hour vaccination, the NHS is going to pilot that in hospitals in London and we will look at how we expand that.’
But he said 8am-8pm vaccination ‘works much more conveniently for those who are over 80 and then as you move down the age groups it becomes much more convenient for people to go late at night and in the early hours’.
He backed the target to offer a first jab to everyone by September as ‘achievable’ and said that over-70s are currently being offered first jabs in areas only where ‘the majority’ of over-80s have had their first shot.
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