Health Secretary Matt Hancock has revealed which hospitals will be used to start the procedure of vaccinations from next week. And also spoke of how the jab will be issued with those people over 80 and care workers being the first to receive it.

England’s first 53 hospital hubs revealed to deliver COVID vaccines from next week: He said “Fifty hospitals across the country are already set up and waiting to receive the vaccine as soon as it’s approved, so that can now happen. Also vaccination centres, which will be big centres where people can go to get vaccinated. They are being set up now.  There will also be a community rollout, including GPs and pharmacists. Now, of course, because of the -70C storage conditions of this vaccine, they will be able to support this rollout where they have those facilities. But they’ll also be there should the AstraZeneca vaccine be approved because that doesn’t have these cold storage requirements and so is operationally easier to roll out.”

Boris Johnson welcomed the news of the vaccine at a press conference at Downing Street on Wednesday but warned of the “immense logistical challenges” faced by rolling it out. He said “It will inevitably take some months before all the most vulnerable are protected – long, cold months. So it’s all the more vital that as we celebrate this scientific achievement we are not carried away with over-optimism or fall into the naive belief that the struggle is over.”

Chief Executive of NHS England, Sir Simon Stevens, said it will take 3 or 4 months before all those at high risk were vaccinated but insisted that the NHS were “ready to go” to vaccinate people in care homes this month. He said “Just as soon as we have the regulatory sign-off that we can do that, that we can get the jabs to the care homes so that the GPs and the nurses can arrive and give the care home residents that COVID vaccination, we will do that.” Johnson said that the combination of testing, vaccines and social distancing will still be necessary, going on to say

“As we do all this we are no longer resting on the mere hope that we can return to normal next year, in the spring, but rather the sure and certain knowledge that we will succeed and together reclaim our lives and all the things about our lives that we love.” Below is the full list of hospitals that will receive the vaccine first:-