Doctors say 24/7 vaccine centres and recruiting retired health workers could help reach goal

Red tape should be stripped away to allow retired health workers help the coronavirus vaccine effort and vaccination centres should open around the clock to meet the target of immunising 30 million people by the summer, ministers have been told.

So far, GPs and hospital staff have injected nearly 950,000 people with a first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, and the approval of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine should mean tens of millions more doses will become available in the coming weeks and months.

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