Coronavirus vaccine campaign will admit that jab may not be 100% safe

A campaign to encourage people to have a Covid-19 vaccination will acknowledge that the jab is not 100 per cent safe under an honesty-first approach designed to win over waverers.

Barely half of Britons say that they will definitely be vaccinated against coronavirus, and plans being developed in government aim to acknowledge concerns to ensure the undecided are not swayed by antivax propaganda.

A Whitehall unit dedicated to promoting a Covid jab has been set up with civil servants from the Department of Health and the Cabinet Office, and the law has been changed to allow promotion of a vaccine even before it is licensed.

Twice as many people, one in seven, say they are not prepared to be vaccinated as did at the

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