Hertfordshire’s top public health boss has said there are no plans to change the county’s vaccination roll-out after cases of the Indian variant of coronavirus were found.

Jim McManus says the goal for the county remains to meet the government's target of offering a first dose of the vaccine to every adult by the end of July and to “push vaccine uptake in areas where it has not been taken up”.

He added that he does not see numbers of variants “growing so fast that we would need to ask the government for permission to do something else”.

It comes after the roll-out of vaccines were ramped up in Bolton amid concerns of the Indian variant, with 6,200 doses said to have been delivered over the weekend.

The Guardian reported that many of those vaccinated were young people, with some as young as 17.

Whilst the Indian variant has been identified in Hertfordshire, Mr McManus says there are only a small number of cases and that there is no where in the county he is “substantially worried about”.

Speaking about the vaccine rollout during a press briefing on Wednesday, Mr McManus said: “We have an open channel to government so we can ask for different things if the numbers ramp up.

“So the government has said tell us what your tool kit is and at the minute we think we can simply vaccinate all adults by July, which will cover 20-year-olds anyway.

“We are just going to stick to that and do it as fast as we can and make sure we push vaccine uptake in areas where it has not been taken up.

“So that’s our goal at the minute, which is every adult, as government said, in the next two months.

“I don’t see that we would have numbers grow of these vairants so fast that we would need to ask government for permission to do something else at the minute.”