WITH nearly 16 million people receiving their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, many will still be wondering when they will be invited to have their jab.

At least 15.5 million Brits have been given the game-changing vaccine as part of the UK's mass vaccination programme which kicked off in December.

This comes as it was revealed every adult in the UK could receive both doses of the jab by August or September, according to the head of the country's vaccine taskforce.

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Clive Dix, who runs the body which identifies and buys vaccines on behalf of the UK government, told Sky News he was sure there would not be any supply problems.

An online calculator is predicting when people are likely to be called in to have their coronavirus vaccine.

The Omni Calculator tells users how many people in the UK are likely to be in front of them in the queue for the jab, including when they could expect to receive their vaccine.

It's been popular for a while but it's worth checking in on it again if you're interested, as the Government is aiming to administer a million jabs a day to get all over-50s vaccinated by the end of April.

Could the Government ramping up their vaccination programme change your place in the queue?

Vaccine queue calculator questions

The Vaccine Queue Calculator asks a series of questions, such as your age, if you are a frontline worker and if you live in a care home or work in one.

It adds if you are pregnant (or plan to be in the next three months) it is not recommended to currently have the vaccine, but states this advice could change when further trial data is available.

On their website, it says the results are worked out based on the Government's nine-point priority list and the likely rate of vaccination.

In simple mode, the tool assumes at the current rate 2.9 million people will be vaccinated a week, however this can be changed in custom mode.

The website highlights it has based its results on the assumption 70.6 per cent of the UK's population will accept the jab, using "the figure last year for people aged 64 and over who were offered the annual flu vaccine".

What happens after you answer the questions?

The calculator gives you a time range of when you might expect to be called in for the vaccine.

This is usually quite a rough estimate - perhaps of around a month - or, as our example shows below, a period of three months or more.

Around 1.7 million more people are set to be added to the shielding list in England after experts identified more adults at serious risk of Covid-19.

Some people have already been offered a Covid jab, but the around 800,000 who have not will be bumped up the vaccine priority list.

But, thousands of people are still searching for the calculator online, even if it only offers an approximate idea of vaccine timings.

Not an official calculator

According to the Evening Standard, the calculator is independent and not connected to the NHS or the vaccine rollout programme.

Omni Calculator claims to have "the most unique, crazy, knock-your-socks-off calculators on the web".

The public can use it to work out itching questions from how many years of your life you can save by picking a bike over a car to their cooking calculators.

Omni vaccine calculator link

To find out when you're likely to receive the jab according to the calculator, visit the Omni website.

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