Covid: Nearly 2m UK people got first Covid vaccine in last week – BBC News

image captionSheila Evans was among those to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine at the Al Abbas Mosque in Birmingham
Nearly two million people in the UK have received their first dose of a Covid vaccine in the past week, government figures show.
By the end of Tuesday 4.61 million people had received their initial jab, up from 2.64 million the week before.
Matt Hancock told MPs: “We’re giving 200 vaccinations every minute”.
But Boris Johnson warned there were “unquestionably going to be a tough…