When will I get the coronavirus vaccine?

Government statistics stae 4,062,501 people in the UK – including over-80s, care home residents, and NHS and social care staff – have already received their first dose of the vaccine.

Now the vaccine is being rolled out to the next two priority groups, the over-70s and the clinically extremely vulnerable.

The Government said it would remain the priority to vaccinate those in the first two groups, but that sites which have enough supply and capacity to vaccinate more people will be allowed to offer jabs to the next cohorts.

So how many people have received a vaccination in Basingstoke and when are you likely to receive yours?

Here is what we know:

How many vaccinations have been given in Basingstoke?

The government do not publish vaccination data at a local level yet, but we do know more than 30,000 have now received the vaccine.

Two weeks ago on January 6, Maria Miller said that the Hampshire GP vaccine hub, operating at Hampshire Court Hotel, has now administered the Covid-19 vaccine to at least 30,000 people since it was set up on December 16.

The Camrose Gillies and Hackwood partnership sent a message out to patients this week that stated: “Basingstoke GP Practices have vaccinated approximately 2,000 of the 15,000 or so patients aged 80 and over in the local area and we are currently wanting for our next delivery.”

They advised patients to be prepared at short notice for the vaccine.

“We only know a day or two in advance so it’s important that we have up to date contact details so that we can get in touch to offer you an appointment at short notice.”

Whilst at Hampshire Hospitals as of January 12, 2,150 staff members had already received their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine and over 5,000 are booked for their first dose.

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What conditions class as extremely vulnerable?

According to the Government's website, people who are clinically extremely vulnerable are at very high risk of severe illness from coronavirus.

There are two ways you may be identified as clinically extremely vulnerable.

1. Your clinician or GP has added you to the Shielded Patient List because, based on their judgement, they believe you are at higher risk of serious illness if you catch the virus.
2. You have one or more of conditions listed below:

• solid organ transplant recipients

• people with cancer who are undergoing active chemotherapy
• people with lung cancer who are undergoing radical radiotherapy
• people with cancers of the blood or bone marrow such as leukaemia, lymphoma or myeloma who are at any stage of treatment
• people having immunotherapy or other continuing antibody treatments for cancer
• people having other targeted cancer treatments that can affect the immune system, such as protein kinase inhibitors or PARP inhibitors
• people who have had bone marrow or stem cell transplants in the last 6 months or who are still taking immunosuppression drugs
• people with severe respiratory conditions including all cystic fibrosis, severe asthma and severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• people with rare diseases that significantly increase the risk of infections (such as severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), homozygous sickle cell disease)
• people on immunosuppression therapies sufficient to significantly increase risk of infection
• problems with your spleen, for example splenectomy (having your spleen removed)
• adults with Down’s syndrome
• adults on dialysis or with chronic kidney disease (stage 5)
• women who are pregnant with significant heart disease, congenital or acquired

I am not over 70 or clinically vulnerable when will I get the vaccine?

The priority list is as follows:

1. Residents in a care home for older adults and their carers
2. All those 80 years of age and over and frontline health and social care workers
3. All those 75 years of age and over
4. All those 70 years of age and over and clinically extremely vulnerable individuals
5. All those 65 years of age and over
6. All individuals aged 16 years to 64 years with underlying health conditions which put them at 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

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Number 10 said it would be guided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) on whether shop workers should be among those prioritised in phase two of the vaccine programme.

It comes after Mr Zahawi suggested he would be in favour of including retail workers in a priority grouping with teachers and police.