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The UK’s vaccines minister, Nadhim Zahawi, says a new daily record of 873,784 jabs were administered on Saturday.
Calm, focused and determined to deliver. 873,784 a new record daily doses. Well done team. https://t.co/KBI3rqTkzi
The speed and precision of the NHS vaccination campaign has been on full display this weekend, and yesterday NHS staff across England administered a remarkable 27 jabs a second. In just one day we vaccinated the equivalent of the entire adult populations of Liverpool, Southampton and…