Many scientists have said it should be delayed amid rising cases but businesses say this would cost jobs.
Rising infections in the UK are being driven by the Delta variant, first identified in India, which now accounts for 90% of infections.
He told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show it was "clear" the UK would have "a substantial third wave of infections" but the question was how this would translate into hospital admissions. But a more infectious variant against which one shot of the vaccine works less well has created a problem. None of that is guaranteed, of course, and so a delay, government scientists are arguing, gives them more time to work out with confidence where we are heading - and it is even possible the immunity built up by the vaccines will have started to halt the growth by then.The vaccine deployment programme continues successfully
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