THE British rollout of the coronavirus vaccine has been relatively incident-free, but there have been a few issues around who is eligible.
Vulnerable people in the population have been identified so they can be among the first to receive protection from COVID-19 - including a slight blunder in relation to a man in his 30s who had no underlying health conditions.
National Health Service records had Liam Thorpe's height erroneously identified as just 6.2cm, which in turn meant he was somewhat overweight.
He contacted his GP after being offered the jab, and was told he had been put into a priority group because of his excessive body mass index of 28,000 - somewhat higher than the obesity threshold of 40.
He told the BBC "I have put on a few pounds in lockdown, but I was surprised to have been classified as clinically morbidly obese...it really made me rethink what I was going to do for pancake night".
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