How many have been vaccinated so far?

[MG CHRIS]

Wales is really pushing the 2nd doses now way higher than first doses. Still had nothing through for my dad I know you can phone up to book does that include wales.

[andy43]

Wales have their own number afaik - google should find it.
ETA https://gov.wales/get-your-covid-19-vaccination-if...

[MG CHRIS]

andy43 said:

Wales have their own number afaik - google should find it.
ETA https://gov.wales/get-your-covid-19-vaccination-if...

Thanks just read the link its only for people over the age of 70s hes 64 so just looks like its a waiting game now.

[RiseUp]

Australia's vaccine roll-out is going at a snails pace. They are averaging less than 6,000 a day.

Granted the UK was slow out of the blocks but they are some woeful numbers. They have plans for 250k a day and want everyone vaccinated by October.

However, you are still required to quarantine if returning to Australia despite having the vaccine. So, yeah, Australia is closed for a whole lot longer yet.

[loafer123]

RiseUp said:

Australia's vaccine roll-out is going at a snails pace. They are averaging less than 6,000 a day.

Granted the UK was slow out of the blocks but they are some woeful numbers. They have plans for 250k a day and want everyone vaccinated by October.

However, you are still required to quarantine if returning to Australia despite having the vaccine. So, yeah, Australia is closed for a whole lot longer yet.

The news this morning indicated that their domestic vaccine plant is coming on stream in the next couple of weeks which will deliver up to 1m doses a week.

[Sway]

RiseUp said:

Australia's vaccine roll-out is going at a snails pace. They are averaging less than 6,000 a day.

Granted the UK was slow out of the blocks but they are some woeful numbers. They have plans for 250k a day and want everyone vaccinated by October.

However, you are still required to quarantine if returning to Australia despite having the vaccine. So, yeah, Australia is closed for a whole lot longer yet.

Canada and NZ too. Scrabbling around trying to get supplies, and trying to build local production capacity.

We should absolutely be rounding up the commonwealth, and showing the name has some meaning. I include India helping out too - and if we can help facilitate that, then we should.

[loafer123]

Sway said:

RiseUp said:

Australia's vaccine roll-out is going at a snails pace. They are averaging less than 6,000 a day.

Granted the UK was slow out of the blocks but they are some woeful numbers. They have plans for 250k a day and want everyone vaccinated by October.

However, you are still required to quarantine if returning to Australia despite having the vaccine. So, yeah, Australia is closed for a whole lot longer yet.

Canada and NZ too. Scrabbling around trying to get supplies, and trying to build local production capacity.

We should absolutely be rounding up the commonwealth, and showing the name has some meaning. I include India helping out too - and if we can help facilitate that, then we should.

Absolutely. We are doing the Crown Dependencies at the same time as the UK, but as soon as we can we should extend that support to others in need who don't have their own capacity sorted.

[anonymous-user]

Sway said:

Canada and NZ too. Scrabbling around trying to get supplies, and trying to build local production capacity.

We should absolutely be rounding up the commonwealth, and showing the name has some meaning. I include India helping out too - and if we can help facilitate that, then we should.

We already are, UK has pumped huge money into making sure AZ gets to other countries at zero profit.

[CraigyMc]

Sway said:

RiseUp said:

Australia's vaccine roll-out is going at a snails pace. They are averaging less than 6,000 a day.

Granted the UK was slow out of the blocks but they are some woeful numbers. They have plans for 250k a day and want everyone vaccinated by October.

However, you are still required to quarantine if returning to Australia despite having the vaccine. So, yeah, Australia is closed for a whole lot longer yet.

Canada and NZ too. Scrabbling around trying to get supplies, and trying to build local production capacity.

We should absolutely be rounding up the commonwealth, and showing the name has some meaning. I include India helping out too - and if we can help facilitate that, then we should.

In a sense that's what the Oxford/AZ Vaccine is. It won't all be made here, but it was developed here -- specifically to be made everywhere.
When it was in development they were looking at 30 production locations around the world, and that was about 9 months ago.

[Sway]

CraigyMc said:

Sway said:

RiseUp said:

Australia's vaccine roll-out is going at a snails pace. They are averaging less than 6,000 a day.

Granted the UK was slow out of the blocks but they are some woeful numbers. They have plans for 250k a day and want everyone vaccinated by October.

However, you are still required to quarantine if returning to Australia despite having the vaccine. So, yeah, Australia is closed for a whole lot longer yet.

Canada and NZ too. Scrabbling around trying to get supplies, and trying to build local production capacity.

We should absolutely be rounding up the commonwealth, and showing the name has some meaning. I include India helping out too - and if we can help facilitate that, then we should.

In a sense that's what the Oxford/AZ Vaccine is. It won't all be made here, but it was developed here -- specifically to be made everywhere.
When it was in development they were looking at 30 production locations around the world, and that was about 9 months ago.

I get that (same for jsf).

I'm taking more immediate, here's some vaccine now type stuff.

It benefits us massively in many ways to do so, whilst their localised production comes on stream.

[anonymous-user]

Sway said:

I get that (same for jsf).

I'm taking more immediate, here's some vaccine now type stuff.

It benefits us massively in many ways to do so, whilst their localised production comes on stream.

UK is paying India to do that. India is the world's largest vaccine supplier, they are well setup to pump out huge quantities for the COVAID program we are funding.

[Sway]

jsf said:

Sway said:

I get that (same for jsf).

I'm taking more immediate, here's some vaccine now type stuff.

It benefits us massively in many ways to do so, whilst their localised production comes on stream.

UK is paying India to do that. India is the world's largest vaccine supplier, they are well setup to pump out huge quantities for the COVAID program we are funding.

Yeah, I want a more focused and 'interventionist' approach for some specific cases though - big doses of realpolitik behind that as well as some sentiment.

[Gary29]

MG CHRIS said:

Thanks just read the link its only for people over the age of 70s hes 64 so just looks like its a waiting game now.

Same age as my dad in Wales, my mum has already had hers as she's 66, I'm sure they'll be rattling through them at a fair rate of knots now.

[CraigyMc]

Sway said:

jsf said:

Sway said:

I get that (same for jsf).

I'm taking more immediate, here's some vaccine now type stuff.

It benefits us massively in many ways to do so, whilst their localised production comes on stream.

UK is paying India to do that. India is the world's largest vaccine supplier, they are well setup to pump out huge quantities for the COVAID program we are funding.

Yeah, I want a more focused and 'interventionist' approach for some specific cases though - big doses of realpolitik behind that as well as some sentiment.

I am not sure AZ would be allowed to do that under their contract, so it would actually be HM govt taking vaccines from UK supplies and sending them abroad.

I'm not convinced that plays well with the current government's policies, but I suppose we'll see.

[Sway]

CraigyMc said:

Sway said:

jsf said:

Sway said:

I get that (same for jsf).

I'm taking more immediate, here's some vaccine now type stuff.

It benefits us massively in many ways to do so, whilst their localised production comes on stream.

UK is paying India to do that. India is the world's largest vaccine supplier, they are well setup to pump out huge quantities for the COVAID program we are funding.

Yeah, I want a more focused and 'interventionist' approach for some specific cases though - big doses of realpolitik behind that as well as some sentiment.

I am not sure AZ would be allowed to do that under their contract, so it would actually be HM govt taking vaccines from UK supplies and sending them abroad.

I'm not convinced that plays well with the current government's policies, but I suppose we'll see.

Agreed - however considering the populations involved (tiny) and the success of our rollout, I think there would be public support for 'slowing down the rate of capacity increase' (so absolutely not reducing the rate here) in order to ship some supplies out.

We have after all a fair level of the population with relatives/friends/etc. in those nations.

[isaldiri]

Sway said:

Yeah, I want a more focused and 'interventionist' approach for some specific cases though - big doses of realpolitik behind that as well as some sentiment.

I thought it was supposed to be very poor form for the Russians and Chinese to be engaging in vaccine diplomacy.....

[CraigyMc]

Sway said:

CraigyMc said:

Sway said:

jsf said:

Sway said:

I get that (same for jsf).

I'm taking more immediate, here's some vaccine now type stuff.

It benefits us massively in many ways to do so, whilst their localised production comes on stream.

UK is paying India to do that. India is the world's largest vaccine supplier, they are well setup to pump out huge quantities for the COVAID program we are funding.

Yeah, I want a more focused and 'interventionist' approach for some specific cases though - big doses of realpolitik behind that as well as some sentiment.

I am not sure AZ would be allowed to do that under their contract, so it would actually be HM govt taking vaccines from UK supplies and sending them abroad.

I'm not convinced that plays well with the current government's policies, but I suppose we'll see.

Agreed - however considering the populations involved (tiny) and the success of our rollout, I think there would be public support for 'slowing down the rate of capacity increase' (so absolutely not reducing the rate here) in order to ship some supplies out.

We have after all a fair level of the population with relatives/friends/etc. in those nations.

It is actually being done to a fair few places already. Israel isn't actually the furthest vaccinated place in the world. Gibraltar is. Falklands has had their first shipment, so has Cayman (these ones are just personal to me).

It is a little different for those places because you're talking thousands or tens of thousands there. For the bigger countries, it's millions with is a harder thing to get into.

[Sway]

isaldiri said:

Sway said:

Yeah, I want a more focused and 'interventionist' approach for some specific cases though - big doses of realpolitik behind that as well as some sentiment.

I thought it was supposed to be very poor form for the Russians and Chinese to be engaging in vaccine diplomacy.....

Was it?

I couldn't care less in principle. For me, it's what the demand (if any) is in return

[Yertis]

RiseUp said:

Granted the UK was slow out of the blocks

Were we? I don't remember that.

[CraigyMc]

Yertis said:

RiseUp said:

Granted the UK was slow out of the blocks

Were we? I don't remember that.

The actual fk?

First country in the world to start vaccination and still miles ahead of every other big country (depends if you think Israel's 9m counts).

Has this quote been taken out of context or is RiseUp just badly misinformed?