Find out when you may get covid vaccine with queue calculator
By The Editor
19th Dec 2020 | Local News
It's the great national health drive of our time - the Covid-19 Vaccination Programme.
Vaccinations against the coronvirus began this month with hospital, social care and care home workers and people aged 80 and over among the first to receive it.
The first cohort of people to get the vaccine have been chosen with the aim of saving lives and reducing hospital admissions by as much as possible.
The priority list is as follows:
- residents in a care home for older adults and their carers
- all those 80 years of age and over and frontline health and social care workers
- all those 75 years of age and over
- all those 70 years of age and over and clinically extremely vulnerable individuals
- all those 65 years of age and over
- all individuals aged 16 years to 64 years with underlying health conditions which put them at higher risk of serious disease and mortality
- all those 60 years of age and over
- all those 55 years of age and over
- all those 50 years of age and over
By vaccinating people in these categories, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation believes it can reduce preventable deaths to covid by 99%.
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When Richmond residents can get the coronavirus vaccine Members of the public who do not fall within these categories will be vaccinated in a later stage. Omni Calculator will give you an idea of when you might be invited by your doctor to get the vaccine. Assuming 1 million people will be vaccinated a week and there is a take-up rate of 70.6%, it will give you a date range for when you can expect to receive it. Visit the Omni Calculator website to find out. Please like and follow our online newspaper on your favourite social media channel. You can find us @RichmondNubNews on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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