'Get your freedom back': England manager Gareth Southgate urges young people to ...

'Get your freedom back': England manager Gareth Southgate urges young people to ...
'Get your freedom back': England manager Gareth Southgate urges young people to ...

England manager Gareth Southgate has urged young people to get their freedom back by supporting the coronavirus vaccination programme.

In the UK, more than 46 million people have now had a first Covid-19 vaccine dose, and more than 36 million have had both doses.

Southgate, 50, whose England side lost this month's Euro 2020 final on a penalty shoot-out to Italy at Wembley, said in a video message: 'I just firstly wanted to say thank you for the support you gave the team this summer, but also to say we know the last 18 months have been incredibly difficult for everybody.

'And there's no doubt that the vaccination programme is our best route out of this problem, not only for us as a country but across the world.

'So I just wanted to say how important it is, if you haven't had your vaccine yet, to go and get it done.

'I know oldies like me have had both jabs so we can crack on with our lives, but for you younger ones especially it's the chance for everything to open up, to get your freedom back. So much of that is going to rest on you having the vaccine.

'So, don't put it off any longer, go and get it done, we can open everything up, we can protect the people we need to protect and you guys will get your freedom back.'

England manager Gareth Southgate has urged young people to get their freedom back by supporting the coronavirus vaccination programme

England manager Gareth Southgate has urged young people to get their freedom back by supporting the coronavirus vaccination programme

Southgate shared the heartfelt plea just weeks after his England side lost this month's Euro 2020 final on a penalty shoot-out to Italy at Wembley

Southgate shared the heartfelt plea just weeks after his England side lost this month's Euro 2020 final on a penalty shoot-out to Italy at Wembley

It comes as official analysis has revealed Covid hospital admissions among elderly people in England are three times lower than they would have been if it wasn't for vaccines. 

About 200 over-65s were admitted to hospital with the virus on July 10, the latest date for which data is available, compared to the 750 that would have been expected without the vaccination drive.

In total, PHE estimates that more than 50,000 admissions have been prevented in England and almost 40,000 deaths.

It is likely that the jabs are performing even better than suggested within the scope of the analysis, which does not break down how many hospital patients were unvaccinated.  

Sir Patrick Vallance, the country’s chief scientific adviser, said last week that about 60 per cent of people admitted to hospital have not had their jabs. A smaller proportion will have only received one dose. 

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