Coronavirus: West Midlands

(asked on 10th December 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason what (a) Birmingham and (b) Sandwell are excluded from the first wave of covid-19 vaccinations.


Answered by
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Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 26th January 2021

Initially there was a complex and difficult logistical challenge to deliver from the manufacturers Pfizer and it was important that hospital hubs were fully prepared with the appropriate plans in place to administer that vaccine. The first phase of delivery went to 50 hospital hubs across the United Kingdom, which is just one part of the range of vaccination services which will cover the entire country.

Due in part to the recent authorisation of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, this capacity has now increased. Alongside University Hospitals Birmingham, 29 other hospital hubs in the region are administering vaccinations, as well as 148 local vaccination services across the Midlands, including 20 in Birmingham and Solihull. Millennium Point in Birmingham also began administering vaccines on 11 January 2021 meaning a greater proportion of the at-risk population in the Midlands will have access to the vaccines.

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