The health secretary reportedly appeared surprised upon learning that the vaccine deliveries to the GP surgery he visited had not yet arrived.
UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock has ended up with a potentially embarrassing situation on his hands after his visit to a GP surgery which was meant to mark the arrival of a new coronavirus vaccine.
According to The Sun, as he visited the Bloomsbury Surgery in London, Hancock announced that “the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine is from, right now, being rolled out to GP surgeries across the country”.
But while Hancock named the supply of vaccines as the only factor that would slow down the roll-out, it turned out that the very GP surgery he visited “had had its first supply of the Oxford vaccine delayed”, the newspaper adds.
She added that Hancock was surprised to learn that the deliveries, which she asked him to sort out, hadn’t arrived.
The newspaper also notes that the health secretary, when he was asked about the delays, said that manufacturers were delivering to a schedule and “that schedule is the amount of vaccine that we have and that’s what GPs will now be delivering”.
Sourse: sputniknews.com
