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Vaccinating young people 'biggest challenge' of Manchester's jab rollout, says city's health chief

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Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Manchester’s push to protect younger people from Covid-19 is proving to be ‘biggest challenge’ of the vaccination rollout, the city’s most senior public health official has said.

Rising infection rates are being driven by adults aged between 20 and 24, the majority of whom have only recently become eligible for a vaccine.

Just under half of Manchester’s population is aged under 25 - higher than the England average - with around 278,000 over-18s now able to get jabbed. READ MORE : When is the travel announcement on amber holidays for double jabbed? David Regan, the city’s director of public health, says the majority of new cases were among a younger working

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