Vaccines for people aged in their 40s in the UK will begin this month, reports have claimed. Health officials are reportedly set to send the last batch of invites for jab bookings to over-60s.
Vaccination teams are predicted to be able to get through all people in the 50s age group in March and move on to the next group, according to the Telegraph.
More than 20 million people in Britain have now had at least a first dose of a coronavirus jab, the latest official figures showed on Sunday.
Around 5 million over-50s could be offered the jab as soon as next week, the newspaper reported. It has based its predictions on the current rate of the rollout, which is moving on average at the speed of about 2.5 million jabs a week.