COVID-19: More people now vaccinated in the UK than have tested positive for virus
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The PM provides an updated jabs total as he warns the public there will be a gradual easing of restrictions.

Four million people have now received a coronavirus jab, the prime minister has revealed, as he warned the public there will be no “open sesame” of lockdown easing.

Speaking during a visit to the manufacturing facility for the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, Boris Johnson said the UK was rolling out COVID-19 vaccines “as fast as we can”.

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“I think we’ve done more than half of the over-80s, half of the people in care homes, the elderly residents of care homes,” he said.

According to the latest figures from Public Health England, a total of 4,062,501 people in the UK have received the first dose of a vaccine.