The previous aim was for all adults to get a jab by September. But U.K. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Sunday that “we now think that we have the supplies” to speed up the vaccination campaign. More than 17.5 million people, a third of U.K. adults, have had at lease one vaccine shot since inoculations began on Dec. 8. Whiley said her sister contracted the coronavirus in an outbreak at her care home, whose residents had not been vaccinated. My mum got a message to say that she could get vaccinated, but it’s too late, she’s fighting for her life” in the hospital, Whiley told the BBC.

Source: ABC News February 21, 2021 10:30 UTC