People over 70 registering for vaccination

People over the age of 70 have started registering for a Covid vaccine in the central registration system. Over 100,000 of them registered by mid-day Monday. There are over 1 million people aged over 70 in the Czech Republic.

Teachers started registering on Saturday, the third group to be given priority after health workers and people over 80. As of Monday GPs have joined the vaccination process as well, using mainly AstraZeneca vaccines.

Over 653,000 people have already been vaccinated with 240,000 having received both doses.