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Elderly care home residents and their carers are first on the list to have a vaccine due to the risks that come alongside their exposure to the virus. This group is followed in priority by anyone else over 80 and frontline health and social care workers. As it stands, more than 130,000 people have been vaccinated after just the first week of the UK’s immunisation programme. Minister Nadhim Zahawi, who is in charge of the vaccine rollout, tweeted 137,897 people had been given their first dose of the Pfizer jab between December 8 and December 15.