It's 106,000 down, 29,000 to go as Northamptonshire leads the way on Covid jabs

Northamptonshire has shot past the magic 100,000 milestone Covid-19 jabs.

Figures from NHS England released today (Thursday) revealed 106,845 first and second doses had already gone into the arms of all healthcare workers and over-70s by the end of January.

Nine out of ever ten in the over-75s bracket have now had at least a first dose and nearly a quarter of over-80s have received both doses.

Northamptonshire has highest the highest figure in the country for delivering both doses to 23.2 per cent of the over-80s age group

More than 20,000 jabs were delivered during the first week the county's mass testing centre at Moulton Park boosted capacity — despite two days of snow causing some disruption to the roll-out.

The Government sent a target of vaccinating 15million people nationwide in the top four priiority groups — including 135,000 in Northamptonshire — by February 15.

Today's figures leaves the county's NHS teams less than 30,000 short of reaching that target.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock yesterday admitted Northamptonshire is "going great guns" delivering the vaccines so many people in just over six weeks since the roll-out started.

And he saluted the medics, GPs, support workers and volunteers, saying: "This doesn't happen by magic — it happens by by hard graft from the people who are doing such a great job in Northants."

■ First doses delivered in Northamptonshire — under-70s 33,775; 70-74s age group 11,533 (30.6%); 75-79s age group 21,827 (89.8%); 80-plus 29,770 (91.0%).

■ Second doses —under-70s 2,164; 70-74s age group 58 (0.2%); 75-79s age group 131 (0.5%); 80-plus 7,587 (23.2%)