The UK is set to announce its Covid-19 vaccine delivery plan
From CNN’s Sarah Dean in London
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock leaves 10 Downing Street in London, on January 6. Wiktor Szymanowicz/NurPhoto/Getty Images
The UK government will publish its Covid-19 UK Vaccines Delivery Plan on Monday, with Health Secretary Matt Hancock scheduled to hold a news conference at Downing Street in the afternoon to provide details on the program.
“Since the historic day the first vaccine was approved, the NHS (National Health Service) has made fantastic strides in offering the vaccine to as many at risk people as possible and at record pace,” Hancock said.
6:22 a.m. ET, January 11, 2021
The UK is now at the worst point of pandemic, expert warns, as vaccination plans are scaled up
From CNN s Nina Avramova, Florence Davey-Attlee and Sarah Dean
Chris Whitty, the Chief Medical Officer for England, attends a news conference at 10 Downing Street in London, on January 5. Hannah McKay/WPA Pool/Getty Images
The United Kingdom is now at the deadliest point of the coronavirus pandemic, with numbers higher now than during last year s peak, England’s Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty said on Monday.
“We’ve got to be very clear that we’re now at the worst point of this epidemic for the UK, in the future we will have the vaccine, but the numbers at the moment are higher than they were in the previous peak by some distance,” Whitty told the BBC.