Boots and Superdrug start dishing out Covid vaccines as six high street pharmacies are recruited and No10 says it s on track to do 3m jabs a week but independent chemists fear UK will fail to hit target unless it uses many more, much sooner
MailOnline revealed this week Boots in Halifax and Superdrug branch in Guildford would join vaccine effort
Chains are among six high street pharmacies across England to be converted into Covid hubs this morning
Calls for ministers to go further and use England s 11,500 pharmacies to deliver round-the-clock vaccinations
Race to help Britain beat Covid speeds up as Boots and Superdrug join vaccine drive
Kate Ferguson
Updated: 15 Jan 2021, 9:45
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MORE than three million Covid vaccines have now been dished out, it was announced yesterday as pharmacies joined the expanding national effort.
More than a third of the over-80s in England are among those who have had at least one dose of the life-saving jab, new figures revealed.
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Brenda Clegg, 92, receiving a dose of the vaccine at the Boots pharmacy in Halifax, West YorkshireCredit: PA:Press Association
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Patients wait in a socially distanced line ahead of receiving an injection of the Covid-19 vaccination at Andrews Pharmacy in Macclesfield, CheshireCredit: PA:Press Association