Matt Hancock reveals 40% of Brits now have been vaccinated after huge success of rollout

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A HUGE 40 per cent of Brits have now been vaccinated after the huge success of the vaccine rollout, Matt Hancock said tonight.

The Health Secretary confirmed the fantastic news that two in five adults have now been given their first jab – a total of more than 21million.

Matt Hancock revealed two in five Brits have got the vaccine now

And one million Brits have got their second jab, and will be fully protected within three weeks.

He told the nation tonight: “As of midnight last night. 21.3 million people had been vaccinated.

“And I can tell you the first time that we have vaccinated now two fifths of the entire adult population of the United Kingdom.”

He said he was fantastic to see the “joy on people’s faces” as they were given the vaccine, and hailed it as “the best way of securing our freedom because they are the best way of protecting us”.

Mr Hancock told a Downing Street news briefing that the fall in the number of deaths was accelerating – down 41% on the previous week – suggesting the vaccination programme was working at last.

He added: “What this all shows is that the link from cases to hospitalisations and then to deaths that had been unbreakable before the vaccine – that link is now breaking,” he said.

“The vaccine is protecting the NHS, saving lives right across the country. The country’s plan is working.”