Quarter of adults in England have received a coronavirus vaccine, Boris Johnson says

Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a media briefing in Downing Street on coronavirus (Steve Reigate/Daily Express/PA))

One in four adults in England have received a first dose of coronavirus vaccine, Boris Johnson said as he urged priority groups to take up the offer of a jab.

The British prime minister said that although more than 13 million people had received a jab in the UK, that meant two million more in the top four priority groups – covering the over-70s, health and care staff and the clinically extremely vulnerable – had not been vaccinated.