Pharmacists will administer Covid vaccinations, the minister in charge said today as he promised a “massive acceleration” in the programme this week.
After high-street chemists said that their offers of help had been ignored, Nadhim Zahawi promised that they would be “involved”.
However, it has yet to be decided whether vulnerable people will be able to get a jab at their local pharmacy or if pharmacists will be deployed to mass vaccination centres.
Millions more coronavirus jabs will reach vaccination centres within days, The Times has been told, and this morning Mr Zahawi, the vaccine minister, said that this would allow a “massive uplift” in vaccinations this week.
He told Sky News: “I’m confident you will see, certainly from January 4 to January 11, a
