Update: Gloucestershire’s Covid-19 vaccinations

On Saturday, more than 1,000 people in Gloucestershire received the Covid-19 vaccination, on what was dubbed ‘Super Saturday’.

This comes after PM Boris Johnson praised Cheltenham for their rapid vaccination rollout in a Downing Street press conference last week.

The Covid-19 vaccine is currently being offered to people who are most at risk from coronavirus, before being offered more widely. This includes those over 50, those with underlying health conditions and frontline hospital workers.

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The priority list currently goes as followed:

1. Residents in a care home for older adults and their carers.
2. All those 80 years of age+ and frontline health and social care workers.
3. All those 75 years of age and over.
4. All those 70 years of age+ and clinically extremely vulnerable individuals.
5. All those 65 years of age and over.
6. All those aged 16-64 years with underlying health conditions which put them at a higher risk of serious disease and mortality.
7. All those 60 years of age and over.
8. All those 55 years of age and over.
9. All those 50 years of age and over.

You can read more information on these groups on gov.uk.

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Around 90% of Cheltenham’s over 80s have now been vaccinated. These vaccinations took place at Cheltenham General Hospital at the Oakley Ward.

In a daily update by Gloucestershire County Council yesterday, 10 more positive cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in the area.

The government aims to get two million people vaccinated a week across the UK. They believe that this is the number of vaccinations that would be required to return ‘back to normal’ by Easter.