Britain has dished out 10% of all Covid vaccines in the world with 13million people now jabbed but critics say UK’s lockdown-ending drive still needs to speed up because it has ‘hit a wall’ – as Tony Blair claims global race to buy up doses is ‘unfair’

Britain has dished out 10 per cent of the entire world’s coronavirus vaccines, figures show — but critics have warned against complacency as data suggests the national rollout has ‘hit a wall’. Despite its small population on the global stage, the UK has administered a whopping 13.5million out of 146million doses given out internationally. According to the statistics compiled by the Oxford University-based research platform Our World in Data, this puts Britain in third place behind only the US and China , which have far larger populations. The figures also show more doses have been dished out here than in France, Germany, Italy and Spain combined. European commission president Ursula von der Leyen today issued a grovelling apology for the EU’s jab shambles, admitting the bloc acted ‘late’ and was ‘over-confident’. Former Prime Minister Tony Blair today said the speed with which Covid jabs were developed and rolled out was an ‘inspiration’ but added that it was ‘unfair’ poorer countries were missing out due to a lack of a global strategy. Number 10’s pandemic response has come in for widespread criticism on the whole, although ministers have been roundly praised for their vaccine rollout being one step ahead of the rest… Read full this story

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