Cheshire's Covid-19 vaccine roll-out "remains on track" to meet national deadlines, according to one senior NHS official.

That's according to Clare Watson, Accountable Officer of NHS Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), the body running the vaccine programme in the county.

Ms Watson made her comments yesterday (March 10) at a meeting of Cheshire West council's Covid-19 outbreak board.

She said: "We are on track in terms of remaining national targets.

"April 15 is not that far ahead but we are confident of hitting that target and we have been working to break down those patients that have not been vaccinated by primary care networks, so they can provide assurance to the CCG they are targeting and working with those hard to reach patients.

"We are now in cohort 8. That is the last but one before the April deadline. It's really excellent performance for all primary care networks with all cohorts.

"We are also making provision for the fact that some second doses will need to be done over the bank holiday weekend at Easter."

Last week, NHS England data showed that four in ten Cheshire and Merseyside adults had had their first dose of the vaccine.

More up to date data is expected to be released on Thursday afternoon, March 11.