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Evening Standard
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Jane Kirby

Covid inquiry: Jab rollout a ‘success’ but vaccine harm payouts ‘need reform’

The Covid inquiry has found the vaccine rollout was a ‘success’ (PA) - (PA Wire)

The Covid-19 vaccine programme in the UK was an “extraordinary feat” but the payment scheme for people injured by the jabs must be urgently reformed, the public inquiry has found.

In her report into the Covid pandemic, inquiry chairwoman Baroness Heather Hallett praised the fact the UK was a world leader in biomedical sciences, which set it in good stead for developing and rolling out vaccines at scale.

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