'We've secured the supply of enough vaccine to vaccinate 30 million people'

The care minister Helen Whately told Mishal Husain the Government would work with GPs to "make sure that the vaccination gets to those who need it". She was speaking as the government announced plans to offer a free flu vaccine to around 30 million people in England, to prepare for a winter that could see the annual flu season coincide with a surge in coronavirus. The traditional flu programme will include all over-50s for the first time, as well anyone on the shielding list and the people they live with. Children in their first year of secondary school will also be offered the vaccine for the first time. With Dylan Watkins, a GP in Totnes and John McCauley, director of the Worldwide Influenza Centre at the Francis Crick Institute. Credit: UK Parliament Jessica Taylor