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🔴 Boris Johnson will hold his latest Downing Street Covid press conference at 5pm.

He is expected to announce that hundreds of military personnel are to be placed on standby to assist the nationwide vaccine rollout.

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The PM starts by setting out how the vaccine roll-out will begin.

Mr Johnson says the limits will be on the supply of vaccines, but he has "no doubt we will be able to vaccinate these four groups [most vulnerable] by the February 15th deadline"
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Boris Johnson says nearly 1.5 million people across the UK have now received their first dose of the Covid vaccine.

They will have some degree of immunity within the next two to three weeks
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The PM also gives an update on how the Government plans to vaccinate 15 million people in the UK's vaccine priority groups.

If all goes well, there will be "hundreds of thousands" of jabs available per day by 15 Jan, and no-one will have to travel more than 10 miles

Simon Stevens, NHS England Chief Exec says there has been a 50% rise in hospital admissions compared to the first wave peak in April.

"That is true in every region in the country and that number is accelerating very very rapidly," he says
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Brigadier Prosser, the military lead on vaccines, says his team are embedded with the NHS.

He says the military has been mainly involved in executing planning support, drawing on their extensive operational and logistics experience
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Simon Stevens says they want to increase the number of people and places doing vaccination as supply increases.

The plan to do so is below 👇

Simon Stevens says volunteers, members of the army and pharmacists are all prepped to deliver the vaccine.

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