Top 20 coronavirus hotspots among over-60s as millions could face wait for vaccine

pThe top 20 coronavirus hotspots among the over-60 age group have been revealed./p pAccording to analysis of Public Health England data from the week to 29 November, Boston in Lincolnshire had the highest number of Covid-19 cases among the over-60s, at about 564 per 100,000 people./p p It was the highest rate recorded for this age group, the analysis by the a href=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-55074293BBC/a showed. /p pMedway in Kent had the second rate at 432 per 100,000, followed by Swale in Kent at 388 per 100,000./p pLincoln had 368 per 100,000 people and Gravesham, in Kent, had 346 per 100,000./p pKent was the county with the county with the highest infection rates in the over-60s age group./p p/ p/ p It comes as a top health official said most people over 80 in Britain will have to wait until next year to get the a href=https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/coronavirus-vaccine data-link-tracking=InArticle|Link data-content-type=section-topiccoronavirus vaccine/a. /p pChris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, said the quot;vast majorityquot; of people at the top of the priority list wonapos;t get a jab until January, February or March./p pProfessor Stephen Powis, NHS national medical director, said the distribution of the vaccine would be a quot;marathon not a sprintquot;./p pVaccinations will be administered at dozens of hospital hubs from Tuesday - dubbed quot;V-Dayquot; by Health Secretary Matt Hancock - with people aged 80 and older, care home workers and NHS workers who are at higher risk at the front of the queue./p img src=https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article23128731.ece/ALTERNATES/s810/0_boston-market-lincolnshire-fruit-and-veg-uk.jpg title=Boston in Lincolnshire had a high infection rate (File photo) data-portal-copyright=Alamy Stock Photo/ p/ pThe Government expects quot;the majorityquot; of vulnerable people will be vaccinated in January and February./p pBut the over 60s are low down on the list of ten groups most likely to get the life-saving jab first./p pDowning Street would not confirm whether they were expecting four million doses of the Pfizer vaccine to arrive by the end of the year./p pquot;We obviously have 40 million doses on order but the scale of the delivery depends on the manufacturing process as we move forward through December,quot; the Prime Ministerapos;s official spokesman said./p img src=https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article23128734.ece/ALTERNATES/s810/0_Sittingbourne-High-Street-Sittingbourne-Kent-England-United-Kingdom.jpg title=Kent was the county with the county with the highest infection rates in the over-60s age group (file photo) data-portal-copyright=Alamy Stock Photo/ pAround 25 million people are covered by the 10 priority categories set out by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation./p pThe first vaccinations will go to care home staff and residents, NHS frontline workers and people aged 80 and over - around six million people./p pAsked how many people will be vaccinated by the end of February, the spokesman said: quot;The majority of the vaccination of the vulnerable will be in January or February.quot;/p pBut the spokesman stressed that two further vaccines were still being assessed by regulators, which could boost the number of doses available./p img src=https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article23128765.ece/ALTERNATES/s810/0_A-member-of-the-community-swabbing-team-carries-out-a-doorstep-COVID-19-testing-following-the-outbre.jpg title=A member of the community swabbing team carries out a doorstep Covid-19 test data-portal-copyright=REUTERS/ h3Priority list for the coronavirus vaccine:/h3 p The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has set the order of priority for the a href=https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/coronavirus-1 data-link-tracking=InArticle|Link data-content-type=section-topiccoronavirus/a vaccine rollout in the UK. /p p1. older adults#x2019; resident in a care home and care home workers/p p2. all those 80 years of age and over and health and social care workers/p p3. all those 75 years of age and over/p p4. all those 70 years of age and over/p p5. all those 65 years of age and over/p p6. high-risk adults under 65 years of age/p p7. moderate-risk adults under 65 years of age/p p8. all those 60 years of age and over/p p9. all those 55 years of age and over/p p10. all those 50 years of age and over/p pThe priority order for the rest of the population is yet to be determined./p