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UK health minister confident vaccine targets will be hit
- "It means that we are on track to meet that target. It's not going to be easy but we are going to get there."
LONDON: Britain's health minister Matt Hancock on Monday said that he was confident that ambitious COVID-19 vaccination targets would be met after reaching an average of 210,000 shots a day between Thursday and Sunday.
"We've got a continued increase in the rate of vaccination. This is happening right across all four nations of the UK," he said at a news conference of the government's target of vaccinating 15 million of the elderly, vulnerable and frontline workers by mid-February.
"It means that we are on track to meet that target. It's not going to be easy but we are going to get there."
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