More than half of people over 80 and care home residents have received the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine in England.
Health secretary Matt Hancock provided an update at a daily press briefing at Downing Street this evening.
Mr Hancock confirmed that more than four million people have now been vaccinated and that half of people over 80 and care home residents had received their first dose.
The Government said the over-70s and the clinically vulnerable were now receiving the jab.
The Health Secretary urged people to stick with the regulations as the programme continued to roll out.
“Don’t blow it now. We are on the route out. We are protecting the most vulnerable. We are getting the virus under control,” he said.
“Together, I know that we can do it and we have got to stick at it.”
Government data for January 17 shows of the 4,514,602 jabs given in the UK so far, 4,062,501 were first doses – a rise of 225,407 on the previous day’s figures.
Some 452,301 were second doses, an increase of 2,565 on figures released the previous day.
In Northern Ireland, a total of 125,717 people have received a first dose so far, a daily rise of 5,330.
