A Welsh health board has confirmed it has arranged Covid vaccine appointments for its entire adult population.
In a tweet on Tuesday morning, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board said letters should be arriving by the end of this week to those over 18 who have not yet had their first dose.
It means all adults in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan will have been offered an appointment before Sunday, May 30, at the latest. The initial Welsh Government target was the end of July.
A spokesperson said: "We have now arranged appointments for all of our adult population aged 18 and over to receive their first vaccine by May 30. Appointment letters should hit doorsteps by the end of this week."
Cardiff and Vale UHB is also urging people who may have missed their appointments to complete this form or to call 02921 841234.
On Sunday, Wales reached the impressive milestone of vaccinating two million adults against coronavirus. Some 2,027,803 over 18s have now received their first dose and 917,431 the full course.
Uptake of the first vaccine dose by priority group (according to PHW):
- Care home residents: 14,813 (97.8%)
- Care home workers: 34,761 (91.2%)
- 80 years and older: 165,808 (95.7%)
- Healthcare workers: 135,416 (94.9%)
- Social care workers: 45,365 (no percentage available)
- 75-79 years: 128,033 (96.4%)
- 70-74 years: 175,597 (95.7%)
- Clinically extremely vulnerable 16-69 years: 76,000 (93.4%)
- 65-69 years: 169,743 (94.1%)
- Clinical risk groups 16-64 years: 304,919 (86.1%)
- 60-64 years: 188,543 (91.6%)
- 55-59 years: 208,972 (89.4%)
- 50-54 years: 199,035 (87.2%)
- 40-49 years: 311,807 (79.3%)
- 30-39 years: 257,141 (61%)
- 18-29 years: 192,690 (41.1%)
Uptake of the second vaccine dose by priority group (according to PHW):
- Care home residents: 13,797 (91.1%)
- Care home workers: 30,562 (80.2%)
- 80 years and older: 158,134 (91.2%)
- Healthcare workers: 120,699 (84.6%)
- Social care workers: 39,171 (no percentage available)
- 75-79 years: 123,048 (92.6%)
- 70-74 years: 168,768 (92%)
- Clinically extremely vulnerable 16-69 years: 67,020 (82.4%)
- 65-69 years: 134,707 (74.7%)
- Clinical risk groups 16-64 years: 60,052 (17%)
- 60-64 years: 61,497 (29.9%)
- 55-59 years: 52,532 (22.5%)
- 50-54 years: 45,968 (20.1%)
- 40-49 years: 64,050 (16.3%)
- 30-39 years: 52,161 (12.4%)
- 18-29 years: 42,104 (9%)
Speaking this week, First Minister Mark Drakeford said children could be offered the coronavirus vaccine later this year should it be deemed safe.
He said some vaccines are beginning to obtain a license to supply doses for children as young as 12 years old in certain countries.
Speaking to ITV Wales' political programme Sharp End, he said: "If there is a vaccine that gets that license for use here in Wales, then I think we are very likely to want to take advantage of that.
"It may be that, later this year even, we will be able to have a programme in our secondary schools of offering those young people a vaccination.
"[This] would make schools even safer than they are now and might allow us to lift some of the other restrictions that we have - wearing of masks in classrooms all the time for example - that inevitably makes that learning experience less comfortable than it would otherwise be."
Dr Gill Richardson, Wales' vaccine lead, said Wales was now planning with colleagues across the four nations to see whether autumn vaccine boosters will be needed.
