I GET the feeling that we in the UK are about to face a dilemma, at what point do we start diverting our precious stocks of vaccines away from the UK and towards other nations.

My own view is that we should not change our present stance in protecting those here at most risk, by age and job description, and that we must complete the second doses to such UK citizens before any thought of sending vaccines abroad.

I do not see any great risk here, once we have fully dealt with our at-risk citizens, in then running vaccines to our remaining population in tandem with supplying these stocks of vaccines abroad.

This may seem a tough position to take but if one considers the daily death toll in the UK, as being like three jumbo jets crashing every day for many months with total loss of all lives aboard, it does make sense.

BARRY GOLDBART
Former Mayor of Bournemouth