Revealed: NHS could offer Covid vaccine to 32m in priority groups by Easter

Analysis suggests everyone in first nine priority groups could get jab four weeks ahead of schedule

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At current rates, the NHS could offer a coronavirus vaccine to the 32 million people in the first nine priority groups by Easter - four weeks ahead of the official schedule - according to analysis by the Guardian.

Government and health sources have described the ambition as to under-promise and over deliver" amid an expectation that short-term pressures on the supply of Pfizer vaccine in February can be compensated for in March.