Four million people have now been vaccinated against Covid amid confusion over which areas will begin immunising over-70s.
A cabinet minister has complained that unvaccinated over-80s will be left distressed and annoyed as younger people are called for jabs, as Boris Johnson defended starting on over-70s while hundreds of thousands of older people remain unprotected.
GPs who have already vaccinated their older patients will now be allowed to move on to over-70s, but many are complaining that their vaccine supplies are being diverted elsewhere.
It remains unclear whether areas that still have large numbers of over-80s to reach should start on younger patients. Officials said it would be a clinical judgment, with no precise threshold set for how many over-80s need to be vaccinated before
