It comes amid the bitter row between the European Commission and AstraZeneca and demands that 75 million jabs be diverted from the UK for member states. The EU is expected to receive only 31 million doses in the first quarter, around 60pc less than initially agreed, with knock-on shortages for Ireland. PromisedThe latest data shows the doses administered in the UK per 100 people stood at 10.79 yesterday, with 7.3 million vaccines given. Residents over 65 in nursing homes and other residential centres, as well as staff and frontline health workers, will be given the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines. AstraZeneca chief Pascal Soriot said his contract with the UK meant that doses coming from its factories would go to Britain first.

Source: The Herald January 28, 2021 02:26 UTC