UK Covid: Boris Johnson says vaccine supply issues will not lead to change in roadmap out of lockdown – as it happened

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6.31pm GMT

By April 15 we will be able to offer a first dose to all of you who are over 50 as well as those who are under 50 who are clinically vulnerable.

We will have the second doses people need within the 12 week window, which means around 12 million people in April and will still offer a first dose to every adult by the end of July.

The Indian government hasn't stopped any export. There is a delay as I have described, as there are very frequently in vaccine rollout programmes.

No, there is a delay as there often is, caused for various technical reasons. We hope, as I have said, to work very closely with the Serum Institute, and indeed with partners around the world, including on the European continent.

The objective here is to save life and avert human misery. Because people are crossing the Channel who are being fooled, who are being conned, by gangsters, into paying huge sums of money, risking their lives.

People have died trying to make this crossing and it is a deeply repugnant traffic that we need to stop, and that's why the Home Secretary has set out the tough series of proposals that you have seen.

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5.52pm GMT

Another reason for Boris Johnson's coyness when it comes to criticising India (see 5.46pm) may be that he is planning a major visit there at the end of April. There are no plans in the diary for any equivalent visits to Belgium, or any other countries in the EU.