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Firefighters among those to help roll out 1 million vaccines per day

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Firefighters among those to help roll out 1 million vaccines per day

Firefighters will join a specially trained army of 40,000 extra workers recruited to roll out Pfizer jabs at record speed — with up to one million a day forecast.

The NHS is poised to recruit more than 40,000 extra workers to roll out the jabs.

NHS bosses will target retired ­doctors and nurses to help, as well as other workers with first-aid skills, such as firefighters, PCSOs and ­members of the Armed Forces.

All will receive specialist training before delivering the Pfizer vaccine to Brits — supported by an additional 30,000-strong army of St John Ambulance volunteers.

Every major city will get a dedicated mass vaccination centre, with 50 ­initially planned in Nightingale hospitals, sports arenas and town halls.

GP surgeries have been told to organise the initial wave, which will involve using community centres, village halls, and practices themselves to administer the jabs to care workers and the elderly as soon as next month.

A further 1,000 smaller Covid-19 vaccination sites will be dotted across England.

A Government spokesperson said:

“There will be a major push to recruit thousands of workers with first-aid skills, such as firefighters and police community support officers, as well as retired doctors and nurses”.

“The idea is at the peak of deployment, the NHS will have capacity to vaccinate one million people a day”.

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