Four thousand people in Northern Ireland have been vaccinated during the first week of the COVID-19 programme.
Minister Nadhim Zahawi tweeted that 137,897 people had received their first doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine since it was introduced.
A really good start to the vaccination program. It’s been 7 days and we have done: England:108,000 Wales: 7,897 Northern Ireland: 4,000. Scotland:18,000 U.K Total 137,897. That number will increase as we have operationalised hundreds of PCN (primary care networks)
— Nadhim Zahawi (@nadhimzahawi) December 16, 2020
And a study has found that people from ethnic minorities in the UK are less likely to go for the vaccine uptake.
A study from the Royal Society for Public Health found only 57% of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people said they would take the vaccine.
That’s compared to 79% of white people.