the government wants to vaccinate all adults as quickly as possible. but constraints on the supply of the pfizer vaccine mean ministers can t speed up the process. 0ur health correspondent nick triggle said there s a limit to how quickly the under 40s can be vaccinated. there is actually plenty of vaccine doses in the country but the problem is, it is the wrong type of vaccine. there is thought to be a stockpile of around 5 million doses of the astrazeneca vaccine but the under 40s are, as you mentioned, being given the pfizer and moderna vaccines so there is plenty of vaccine available to give the second doses to people in their 40s and 50s, but there is a limit to how quickly the government can vaccinate the under 40s. we are getting around 1.5 million doses of the pfizer and moderna vaccines imported into the country each week and the government is confident about those supply lines.
they believe there is enough to do the remaining under 40s by the 19th ofjuly but we can t start the second doses until after that, and the pfizer vaccine will also be the vaccine that will be used to vaccinate children, if that is given the green light. so that has an implication for when that could start and how quickly that can be done. ministers have always said supply of vaccination is the rate limiting factor and that is clear, that is more true now as we approach the end of the roll out than it has ever been. borisjohnson s former top aide, dominic cummings, has published what he says are messages he received from the prime minister, in which mrjohnson described the health secretary as hopeless . mr cummings has blamed matt hancock forfailings during the pandemic, and said he should have been sacked. the prime minister s spokesman says the pm has full confidence
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