The vaccination program against Covid-19 in the United Kingdom will target, if possible, in priority the elderly and at risk professions but not to the whole population, indicated the person in charge of the file with the British government .
Appointed in the spring by the government as chair of the coronavirus vaccination task force, Kate Bingham told the Financial Times that general vaccination of the population "will not happen".
"We just need to vaccinate everyone at risk,"
she explained in an interview posted online Sunday evening.
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"We are talking about
" the time it will take to vaccinate the entire population "
but this is wrong.
There will be no vaccination for people under the age of 18.
It will be a vaccine for adults only, for people over the age of 50, and particularly for nursing staff, nursing home staff and the most vulnerable, ”
she said.
The British government has already ordered tens of millions of doses of vaccines from the various programs currently underway, including that led by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, without knowing if they will be successful.
The United Kingdom passed the threshold of 500,000 cases on Sunday, including more than 42,000 deaths.
Like other European countries, he is experiencing a resurgence of cases which has prompted the authorities to impose new restrictions, making expectations for a vaccine even higher.
