According to the latest data released on Saturday, 80% of the British population over the age of 12 has received two doses of the coronavirus vaccine.
More than 20 percent also received the third dose of the booster vaccine. The total number of first, second and third vaccinations provided to date has exceeded 108 million in the UK.
According to the details released by the British Ministry of Health on Saturday night, 50,525,259 people have received the first vaccination dose since the start of the vaccination campaign in the UK on December 8 last year.
Of those, 4,5985,795 have received a second dose and 12,164,586 a third dose, giving a total of 108,675,640 doses of coronavirus vaccination in the UK so far.
As reported on Saturday evening, this means that 80 per cent of the British population over the age of 12 received the first two doses of the vaccine, and 21.2 per cent of people in this age group received three doses of the vaccine.
Lab tests have so far revealed more than 9.5 million coronavirus infections nationwide, and the pandemic has caused 142,835 deaths in Britain as of Saturday’s data set.
However, according to a recent estimate by the Public Health Service (PHE), the UK’s vaccination program prevented more than 112,000 more deaths and 24.7 million infections, and prevented 143,600 serious illnesses that would have led to hospital care.
