direct to your inbox Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said efforts are being made to ensure care home residents receive the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine as soon as possible as the UK roll out begins next week.
People aged over 80 and care home workers will be first receive to the jab along with NHS workers who are at higher risk of becoming seriously ill with coronavirus.But there is still no guaranteed date for when care home residents will be vaccinated, despite them being at the top of the priority list, as the Health Secretary spoke of the "significant challenges" of getting the doses to them.Logistical challenges means there are issues getting the vaccine to vulnerable residents in care home as it needs to be stored at minus.