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Coronavirus: Vaccination

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Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 135790, tabled on 11 January 2021

Question

Mr Laurence Robertson
Conservative
Tewkesbury
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will prioritise food processing staff for the covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement.

Answer

Nadhim Zahawi
Conservative
Stratford-on-Avon
Commons

Answered on

2 February 2021

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) advised that the priority for the current COVID-19 vaccination programme should be the prevention of COVID-19 mortality and the protection of health and social care staff and systems.

The Government will set out plans for phase two of the vaccination programme in due course, based on further advice from the JCVI. Phase two of the roll-out may include further reduction in hospitalisation and targeted vaccination of those at high risk of exposure and/or those delivering key public services.

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