by Bethany Rielly

THE mass roll-out of the Oxford vaccine began with failures yesterday while hospitals teeter on the edge and NHS staff morale plummets.  

The first community vaccines in England with the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab were due to take place yesterday at GP surgeries, with jabs being delivered to sites across the country. 

However, supplies of the vaccine failed to arrive at a surgery visited by Health Secretary Matt Hancock to promote the jab’s launch, in a scene described by his Labour counterpart Jonathan Ashworth as “something from The Thick of It.”