(Bloomberg) -- Less than half the U.K.'s population can expect to be vaccinated against Covid-19, the Financial Times reported, citing the head of the government's vaccine task force.
People deemed at risk, such as those over 50 and health workers, will be the focus of the government's vaccination efforts, Kate Bingham told the newspaper. She said the government was aiming to vaccinate about 30 million people, out of the country's population of about 67 million.
“People keep talking about ‘time to vaccinate the whole population', but that is misguided,” she said. “There's going to be no vaccination of people under 18. It's an adult-only vaccine.”
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