Around 32 million people should receive their first dose of coronavirus vaccine by May.

The government says it expects all adults over the age of 50 as well as the clinically vulnerable and those working in health and social care to be offered their first job.

By then, almost 11 million people have now had their first injection.

The U.

K's medicines regulator says the latest research show side effects from Aled.

The improved vaccines are minor on Don't last long.

Here's our medical editor, Fergus Walsh.

This is an immunization production line at Epsom Racecourse in Surrey.

They're doing 1000 co vid jabs a day.

The government is so confident it will reach its target of giving a first dose to the over seventies and frontline health workers by mid February.

It's now looking to the future.

My goal is that I want us to be able to offer a vaccine toe all over fifties.

That's priority groups want a nine by May.

There's a lot of things that we've got to get right in orderto hit that goal on.

Obviously, supply is the most difficult of all of those, but we're currently on track.

For that, you might get sore arm for a couple of days.

New data confirms that side effects from co vid vaccines are mostly mild, which should reinforce public confidence.

It will take about three weeks from today for your body to build up the immune response.

70 and 80.

Something's in Epsom.

We're taking it all in their stride, they said.

There may be some side effects, but I've never, ever had side effects with any vaccines, so I'm not expecting any.

Well, I said has already and she just had a 24 hours so honest.

But that's all.

She is perfectly OK afterwards, so I know not concerned.

No, it doesn't hurt on.

I feel so secure now.

Medical regulators are constantly monitoring co vid vaccine safety.

They've analyzed 6.9 million doses given up to the 24th of January.

There were 22,820 reports off suspected adverse reactions, which equates to about three per 1000 doses.

The vast majority were mild and included sore arms, headache, tiredness or fever that generally lasted a couple of days.

There are no unexpected serious adverse reactions, so the benefits off the cove in 19 vaccines far outweigh the risks on anyone who gets that invitation to go along for a jab should not hesitate.

You can be confident that these are very safe vaccines.

All medicines, including vaccines, can cause side effects.

So the results of this safety monitoring are very reassuring for those who have had their co V jab on for the tens of millions of us yet to get our invite.

New research shows the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine protects well against the more contagious Kent variant, but new variants are inevitable.

So the government has signed up with a German biotech to develop future co vid vaccines to try to keep pace in the arms race against the virus.

Fergus Walsh, b, B c News All the latest government figures showed there were 19,114 new coronavirus infections recorded in the latest 24 hour period, which means that on average, the number of new cases reported per day in the last week is 19,823.

That's the first time that figure has dropped below 20,000 for almost two months across the UK, 30,508 people are in hospital with coronavirus, including suspected cases in Wales, 1000 and 14 deaths were reported.

That's people who died within 28 days of a positive cove in 19 test.

It means the average number of deaths announced every day in the past week is now 985 the first time that number has fallen below 1000 for almost three weeks.

The total number of deaths across the UK is now 111,264 well, the U.

K's program of mass vaccinations continues.

480,560 people have had their first dose of one of the three approved covert 19 vaccines in the latest 24 hour period, taking the overall number of people who've had their first job to very nearly 11 million.

Well, as cases come down and the numbers being vaccinated rises fast, Mawr questions are being asked about how soon locked down measures can be eased.

Here's our health editor Sheep in Serge Testing in action in Walsall, volunteers and council staff collect swab samples.

It's one of the communities notified this week of cases of people testing positive with the South African variant.

It's a mammoth job, but we're getting there.

The boxes are slowly stacking up, so great response from the community.

So we just help that continues.

House to House Visits Continue encouraging people to get tested, but the overall national picture is brighter with falling daily.

Case numbers on din A weekly survey by the Office for National Statistics, which picks up those who are positive but don't have symptoms.

The latest O.

N s survey of community infections suggests that in England last week, one in 65 had the virus.

It was the same in Northern Ireland.

In Scotland, it was one in 115 in ALS, three case rates were falling in Wales.

One in 70 had the virus, with case numbers broadly unchanged.

The latest Our number range Anything above one suggests the virus is accelerating was between North 0.7 and one a little lower than before.

So which areas have the highest on lowest case numbers?

Sandwell, Knowsley and Corby have the most cases per 100,000 people, though they're falling.

The Shetland Islands, Orkney Islands on DTA origin Devon have the fewest.

I think it's encouraging that hopefully we're going, you know, in a negative direction, less hospitalization, less, you know, infections.

But we probably need to go much, much further before we start thinking about rolling back the lock down.

Another survey by the oh and S looks at attitudes during different lockdowns, while noting direct comparisons aren't straightforward.

In the spring of last year, 81% said they were staying at home or only leaving for basic needs, like shopping or exercise.

But in the current lock down, 57% say they're doing so.

Compliance with hand washing and mask wearing has stayed high.

90% say they're maintaining social distancing, but the pandemics taking its toll on mental health, according to the survey.

In the last week of January, life Satisfaction and Happiness wrote the lowest levels since research began in March 2020.

Mental health charities say the findings tally with their experience.

It's been quite overwhelming at times.

Andi.

We're hearing from lots of people that they're struggling with depression and anxiety, worries about how the pandemic and locked down is affecting their their lives in the people that they care about with falling case numbers.

There's a tension between the call to ease locked down to improve people's well being on the caution of scientists who argue it mustn't happen too quickly.

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ID Up to political editor Vicky Young is at Westminster, and what people really do want to know is how soon restrictions could be lifted.

We're talking to ministers this week.

There's no doubt there's a sense of optimism that really wasn't there before.

But you can also detect underlying anxiety after everything that's happened over the last few months, and that really is leading to a cautious approach.

Now, what are they worried about?

They're worried about case numbers.

They're still pretty high, and they're concerned that if they open too soon, those will rebound back very heavily.

They're worried about too many people, of course, still being in hospital.

Now, of course, the more that people are vaccinated, the loud of those calls grow for things to be unlocked.

Now, what the government is waiting for is more detailed analysis of exactly how the vaccines are having an impact.

Particularly course in those people who are older are more susceptible to cove.

It now We do have some dates, Sophie.

Particularly for England.

First of all, the eighth of March.

We know that more people will go back to school.

We also know that local elections will take place on the sixth of May.

The big unknown.

What will happen between those two dates?

How much will be opened up now?

The Prime Minister has promised to tell us, but I'm afraid that won't be for another 2.5 weeks.

Vicky Young.

Thank you.