Care home staff have ‘professional responsibility’ to get Covid jab, England's CMO says

Professor Chris Whitty (Hollie Adams/PA)

England’s chief medical officer has said care home workers have a “professional responsibility” to get a Covid-19 vaccine after he was questioned about the lower uptake of jabs among staff in some parts of the country.

During a Downing Street press conference on Monday, Prof Chris Whitty was asked if he was “shocked” by figures that showed that the area of Lambeth in south London had seen just 45% of staff working in older adult care homes receive a first dose.