March 24, 2021 - 1468 views
Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board's Ffion Johnstone has provided an update today on the vaccine rollout in North Wales and has warned that there may be delays in administering the vaccine to some groups.
In the last two weeks, with the support of our GP partners, we have administered around 100,000 vaccinations. This week, with a reduced supply, we will pass the milestones of providing 300,000 first doses and 400,000 total vaccinations.
Because of significant delays to the UK’s COVID vaccine supply, from early April we will receive less vaccine than we had planned for.
As a result, first dose appointment invitations for people in Priority Groups 6-9 may arrive later than we had indicated in our update on 16th March. Appointments for second doses are unaffected.
We continue to ask people to be patient, as we are working as fast as we can with the supply we have. If we had more, we could do more.
If you’re in Priority Groups 6-9 and you’ve not yet been called, please don’t contact your GP or our COVID-19 Vaccination Contact Centre – you will be contacted when it is your turn. It won’t be too much longer now.
Despite this setback, which is beyond our control, we remain on course to meet the Welsh Government’s target of offering a first dose of the vaccine to Priority Groups 1-9 by April 19th, and to the rest of the population by the end of July, subject to there being no further interruption to our vaccine supply.
