How many people in the Anglia region have had the Covid vaccine so far?

Check the progress of the coronavirus vaccine rollout in your part of the Anglia region

The injection to protect against Covid-19 is being rolled out in two phases with the most vulnerable people targeted offered their first dose by mid April. That target has been achieved. The second dose, needed to become fully vaccinated, will follow within 12 weeks.

The government target is that all adults will have their first dose by the end of July.

Half of all adults in the East of England had their first injection by Wednesday 17 March.

On Saturday 20 March, the NHS recorded a record number of daily first doses given in the East of England with 85,568 injections. Including second doses, the total was 93,481.

On Tuesday 30 March, there were more second doses delivered in the East of England than first doses for the first time since the vaccination programme began.

On Tuesday 6 April, more than half a million people in the East of England had received both doses making it one in ten of the adult population.

You can see how many people have been been given the jab in your part of the Anglia region but clicking on the interactive map below

10,101

People given a first dose in the East of England on 20 April

3,315,065

Total number of people in the East of England given a first dose

64.9%

Proportion of adults in the East of England given their first dose

1,106,415

People in the East of England who had both doses of the Covid vaccine by 20 April

21.7%

Proportion of adults in the East of England who have had both vaccine doses

According to NHS England data up to 11 April, the areas of the Anglia region where the highest proportion of people have been given the first dose of the vaccine were in North Norfolk (70.2% of people aged 16+) and the Tendring (68.1%) in Essex. Those areas also have the oldest age profile in the local population.

The vaccination rates were lowest in Cambridge (32.0% of people aged 16 and over) and Luton (41.3%) which also have a younger age profile.

By Sunday 11 April, nine in ten of people over the age of 50 in the Anglia region (90.6%) had received their first vaccine dose.

Clickable map of the vaccine rollout in each area of the Anglia region

The darker the shade of blue on the map, the higher the proportion of people over the age of 16 who have had the first injection. If you move your cursor over the map you can see the percentage figures for each area.

The local data at local authority level is published only weekly and there is a time lag of a few days whereas the regional data for the East of England, above, is updated daily.

Bar chart of the vaccine rollout in each area of the Anglia region

This is the priority order of the vaccine rollout in England

Phase one priority groups (to be offered first dose by mid-April)

1 - Residents in a care home for older adults and their carers (800,000 people)

2 - Those aged 80 and over and frontline health and social care workers (a total of 7.1 million people in this group: 3.3m over 80s, 2.4m healthcare workers, 1.4m social care workers)

3 - Those aged 75 and over (2.3 million)

4 - Those aged 70 and over and clinically extremely vulnerable individuals (4.4 million)

5 - Those aged 65 and over (2.9 million)

6 - All individuals aged 16 to 64 with underlying health conditions which put them at higher risk of serious disease and mortality (7.3 million)

7 - Those aged 60 and over (1.8 million)

8 - Those aged 55 years and over (2.4 million)

9 - Those aged 50 years of age and over (2.8 million)

Phase two (to be offered first dose by mid-July)

10 - All those aged 40-49 years

11 - All those aged 30-39 years

12 - All those aged 18-29 years

Bar chart showing the progress of the vaccine rollout in the Anglia region

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