Mr Swinney said it is 'impossible to segment' data on coronavirus to determine whether it is working, but he believes it is 'delivering a positive benefit to the suppression of the virus'.
John Swinney, who is also Covid Recovery Secretary, said the Government does not have any evidence to show if the measure is reducing the spread of coronavirus and encouraging people to get vaccinated. There is no way to know whether the coronavirus vaccine passport scheme is working in Scotland is working, the country's Deputy First Minister said today. He added: 'Any suggestion that we should move to Plan B owing to the "slow" rollout should be robustly resisted.'Īt the current rate of 1.9million boosters a week, 23million people will have had their booster shot by Christmas Day - nearly three quarters of all 32million eligible adults.īut officials have also warned against complacency, urging Brits to book their booster jabs as soon as possible to ensure the rollout stays on track. Professor David Livermore, a microbiologist at the University of East Anglia, told MailOnline the rollout is likely to reach the majority of the country's most vulnerable adults by early December at the current pace. Unusually optimistic models by SAGE advisers predicted cases and hospitalisations will fall naturally this winter even without implementing the Government's 'Plan B' if 1.3million boosters are dished out a week.Īnd independent experts told MailOnline today said the current pace of the rollout should be enough to keep the virus at bay. Labour has again urged the Government to 'turbo charge' the NHS programme to 500,000 doses a day - nearly double the current average rate - to avoid hospitals becoming overrun this winter.Īnd Health Secretary Sajid Javid - who has already warned Christmas curbs may be on the cards if uptake does not pick up - has repeatedly urged all eligible adults to come forward for their third jab.īut despite a slow start to the rollout beset by bureaucratic hurdles and slow uptake, NHS medics and volunteers are now dishing out an average of 1.9million booster doses every week in the UK - up from around 1.2million in the first week of October. Britain's Covid booster vaccine drive is going quick enough to keep winter cases under control, experts claimed today despite a flurry of demands to accelerate the rollout.
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