英国疫苗工作组负责人：新冠疫苗不会进行全民接种

Small bottles labeled with a "Vaccine COVID-19" sticker and a medical syringe are seen in this illustration. /Reuters

英国疫苗工作组负责人凯特•宾汉姆（Kate Bingham）近日在接受《金融时报》采访时表示：新冠疫苗问世后，英国将仅为高风险人群接种，而不会进行全民接种。

Britain's vaccine task force chair, Kate Bingham, has said that vaccinating everyone in the country for the coronavirus was "not going to happen," telling the Financial Times only those at risk need to be vaccinated. 

宾汉姆补充说，新冠疫苗将仅供成年人接种，尤其针对50岁以上的医疗、护理人员及脆弱人群。

"There's going to be no vaccination of people under 18. It's an adult-only vaccine, for people over 50, focusing on health workers and care home workers and the vulnerable," Bingham said in the interview.

当地时间4日，英国首相鲍里斯•约翰逊（Boris Johnson）表示，预计接下来几个月疫情仍将出现不稳定局面，不过到了明年春天，情况将大幅改变。

Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday said he expected the next few months of the COVID-19 pandemic to be bumpy, but that things would look radically different in the spring. 

“每个人都在谈论全民接种疫苗的时间点，但大家都被误导了”，宾汉姆在接受采访时说。她表示，让不太可能演变成重症的健康群体接种新冠疫苗，反而“有可能导致他们受到一些不必要的伤害。”

"People keep talking about time to vaccinate the whole population, but that is misguided," Bingham told the FT, adding that vaccinating healthy people, who are much less likely to have severe outcomes from COVID-19, "could cause them some freak harm."

据美国约翰斯•霍普金斯大学最新数据统计，英国目前是欧洲新冠病毒死亡人数最多的国家，死亡人数已超42400人。

Britain has suffered Europe's worst death toll from the virus, with the current total standing at over 42,400. 

英国《泰晤士报》上周援引政府科学家的话称，预计不到3个月，新冠病毒疫苗将在英国推广，部分医疗官员预计6个月内英国所有成年人可接种疫苗。

The Times, citing government scientists, reported last week that a mass roll-out of a COVID-19 vaccine in Britain could be finished in as little as three months, adding that health officials estimate that every adult could receive a dose of the vaccine within six months. 

宾汉姆表示，疫苗若成功问世，英国政府计划为3000万人接种，英国目前人口约6700万左右。

Bingham said the government was aiming to vaccinate about 30 million people – the UK's population is about 67 million – if a successful vaccine against COVID-19 was found, according to the FT.

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