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Ethnic minorities, younger adults and women ‘less likely to say they will get vaccine’
A nurse prepares flu vaccine jabs at one of the new the drive-thru flu clinics at Little France, Edinburgh
PEOPLE of black and minority ethnic backgrounds, younger adults and women are less willing to receive a Covid-19 vaccine, according to new figures.
Four per cent of 14,000 people surveyed said they were unlikely to accept a vaccine, and less than 1 per cent said they had declined to be vaccinated.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) survey did not include adults living in care homes.
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