Revealed: Who Will Be First In Line For Pfizer Vaccine

Wednesday, 2 December 2020 10:23

By Sky News

Care home residents and their carers will be first in line to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in the UK, it has been confirmed.

The government's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has confirmed its priority list for the first phase of the UK's mass vaccine rollout, which will begin early next week.

It comes after the UK became the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for use.

The JCVI's priority list is as follows:

1 - Residents in a care home for older adults and their carers
2 - All those 80 years of age and over. Frontline health and social care workers
3 - All those 75 years of age and over
4 - All those 70 years of age and over. Clinically extremely vulnerable individuals
5 - All those 65 years of age and over
6 - All individuals aged 16 years to 64 years with underlying health conditions which put them at higher risk of serious disease and mortality
7 - All those 60 years of age and over
8 - All those 55 years of age and over
9 - All those 50 years of age and over

Studies have shown the Pfizer jab is 95% effective and works in all age groups.

The government has secured 40 million doses of the vaccine, which needs to be refrigerated at -70C (-94F).

Ten million doses are expected in the UK by the end of the year and patients need two each.

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