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Campaigners claim thousands of Britain’s undocumented migrants could miss out on Covid vaccine
Vials of the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine are stored in a temperature-controlled fridge at Copes Pharmacy and Travel Clinic in Streatham, south London

A DECADE of hostile environment policies could harm Britain’s recovery from the pandemic as hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants face barriers to the vaccine, public health campaigners warn.

More than 10 million people have already received at least one dose of the vaccine in Britain, but campaigners claim that the country’s population of undocumented migrants — estimated at between 800,000 and one million — risks being left out of the programme.

The government has specified that everyone in Britain is entitled to receive the Covid-19 vaccination free of charge regardless of their immigration status.

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