‘Wait and see’ approach over vaccine injection targets does not reassure people

Speaking today (January 25) after the Welsh Government Covid-19 briefing, Angela Burns MS – the Shadow Health Minister – said that the lag in vaccination target data is unhelpful and does nothing to reassure people in Wales.

Last week, the Health Minister stated that 70 percent of care home staff and residents, and 70 percent over the over-80s, would have been injected by Friday last week. However, the Minister said during the briefing that delays in reporting have prevented the full figures being known.

Mrs Burns said:

“I think we can all accept that the snow and ice that affected large parts of Wales yesterday will likely have had a knock-on effect with the numbers of vaccinations that took place, but these delays in reporting don’t allow us to see how the targets are being met.

“And I want to be completely clear that we want them to be reached, we want them to be beaten, we want them to be exceeded – but these bugs in the system that cause lags in data must be ironed out.

“Then, when we have accurate and up-to-date data, can we and everyone else in Wales have some reassurance that the programme is running effectively, because this wait-and-see approach offers none.”