Covid-19 Update Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Covid-19 Update

Mark Logan Excerpts
Wednesday 12th May 2021

(2 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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To the best of my knowledge, everybody is getting the jabs when they are asked to come forward. If the hon. Member has particular cases where people are worried about the time when they are going to get a jab—whether it is AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Moderna or another one—I would be very grateful if he would send me the details, and we will see what we can do to sort it out.

Mark Logan Portrait Mark Logan (Bolton North East) (Con) [V]
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With a high prevalence of the Indian variants and among the highest infection rates in the UK at 150-plus per 100,000, will the Prime Minister join me in pushing for most of Bolton to be vaccinated ASAP?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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My hon. Friend makes a very good point about the rates of infection of the B.1.617.2 variant, as we should probably call it. At the moment the cases look as though they are about 860 or so, but there may be more. It may be more transmissible—it may be considerably more transmissible. We are looking at all the potential solutions for the surges we are seeing in Bolton and elsewhere, including the one that he describes, though that is not top of the list at the moment.