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Half of UK adults will have had a COVID-19 shot by end of week: minister – Metro US

Half of UK adults will have had a COVID-19 shot by end of week: minister

FILE PHOTO: Junior Brexit minister Kwasi Kwarteng is seen outside
FILE PHOTO: Junior Brexit minister Kwasi Kwarteng is seen outside Downing Street in London

LONDON (Reuters) – More than half of Britain’s adult population will have received the first shot of a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the week as the inoculation programme continues at pace, business minister Kwasi Kwarteng said on Wednesday

“I think by the end of the week 50% of the British adult population will have been vaccinated, and if people get the call I think they should take the jab,” he told BBC TV.

(Reporting by Sarah Young and Paul Sandle, editing by Estelle Shirbon)