UK Covid Inquiry Praises Vaccine Rollout, Urges Jab Injury Payment Reform
The UK's Covid-19 inquiry has described the national vaccine rollout as an "extraordinary feat" while also calling for urgent reforms to the system for compensating those injured by the jabs. The inquiry chair highlighted the need for improvements in the payment process.
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UK rollout of Covid-19 vaccines was ‘extraordinary feat’, inquiry says
Report also calls for ministers to make ‘urgent’ reforms to compensation scheme for people who ‘suffered harm’
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Heather Hallett hails vaccine scheme but criticises rule that only those meeting 60% disabled threshold can get payouts 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 on the pandemic has found. In her report, the inquiry chair, 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 vacci...
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