As new mass Covid vaccination centre opens in Milton Keynes, this is when YOU can expect your jab

The government is racing to vaccinate the top priority groups by February 15. Below is the list of groups, in order of priority, together with the government's target timetable.

1. Older adults living in care homes and care home workers, followed by all those 80 years and over and health and social care workers. This group, which accounts for 6,160000 people, is 95 per cent complete.

2. All those 75 years of age and over. This will require 2,325,296 vaccines nationwide.

3. All those 70 years of age and over (3,318,867 vaccines). The government has said its target is to vaccinate everybody in this group, along with the priority groups above it, by February 15. Included in all these top three priority groups are people who are extremely clinically vulnerable, whatever their age.

4. All those 65 years of age and over (3,368,199 vaccines)

5. All individuals aged 16 years to 64 years with underlying health conditions which put them at higher risk of serious disease and mortality (2,200,000 vaccines)

6. All those 60 years of age and over (3,755,185 vaccines)

7. All those 55 years of age and over (4,405,908 vaccines)

8. All those 50 years of age and over (4,661,015 vaccines). By early May the government is hoping to have vaccinated all over-50s in England and Wales, together with the higher priority groups, with at least the first dose.

9. The rest of the population - 41, 41,599,738 people. The priority these groups will take is still to be determined.

Autumn 2021 is the target date to have offered a vaccine slot to everyone in the UK.

Each person will have two full doses between four to 12 weeks apart. This is in order to give as many people the initial dose of the vaccine as possible, and offer some protection from the virus after that first dose.