British PM urges most vulnerable to get coronavirus vaccines

London, Feb 11 : British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday called on around 2 million people in Britain’s most vulnerable groups to come forward and get their Covid vaccines.
Speaking at a virtual Downing Street press briefing, Johnson stressed that Covid vaccines are “safe and effective”, the Xinhua news agency reported.
“Great strides” have been made in Britain’s vaccine rollout, said Johnson. More than 13 million people in Britain have been given the first jab of the coronavirus vaccine, according to the latest official figures.
More than 90 per cent of everyone aged over 75 and more than 90 per cent of eligible residents of care homes have received their first jabs, he said.
However, around 2 million people in the most vulnerable groups in Britain have still to be reached, according to Johnson. Britain aims to complete the vaccination of the top priority groups, which cover 15 million people, by mid-February.
Johnson said his call is not to help the government reach its “numerical target” for February 15, but rather to “save lives, prevent serious illness and so the whole country can take another step on the long and hard road back to normality”.