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Birmingham Post
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Chris Pyke

Welsh Government to outline its Covid vaccination plan

Health Minister Vaughan Gething will today publish the Welsh Government’s Covid Vaccination Plan, setting out a series of milestones for when people will be offered a vaccine.

The plan will describe how all eligible adults will be vaccinated.

It comes as Wales will publish daily vaccination figures from today – more than 70,000 people had received their first dose of the Covid vaccine by the end of last week.

To date, according to our sister site WalesOnline, Wales has been the least effective of the four UK nations at vaccinating people. Wales had administered just under 50,000 doses as of January 3.

It is equivalent to one in every 63.8 people. By comparison, England had vaccinated one in 50.6, Scotland one in 48.1 and Northern Ireland leading the way with vaccinating one in every 45 people.

There is also significant disparity across Wales with the north Wales health board Betsi Cadwaladr having vaccinated the fewest people relative to its population.

According to the First Minister, Mark Drakeford, speaking at a press conference on Friday, Wales "started with just seven vaccination centres – today we have 22 and that will rise to 35".

He also said: "At the start of next week, 75 GP practices will be vaccinating. It will be 100 by next Friday and 250 by the end of the month. And we have 14 mobile units providing vaccinations to care homes around Wales."

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