Coronavirus vaccines WILL start to roll out next month, Matt Hancock confirms as he says UK regulator is assessing Pfizer’s jab after Britain confirms 20,252 more Covid-19 cases and 511 deaths

Coronavirus vaccines will start to roll out next month if one is approved by the British drug regulator, Matt Hancock confirmed today.  The Health Secretary said in a TV briefing that the Government has officially asked the regulator, the MHRA, to consider licensing the vaccine made by pharmaceutical firms Pfizer and BioNTech. A late-stage study this week confirmed that the jab was 95 per cent effective in clinical trials and appears to protect people of all ages from coronavirus. The £15-a-dose jab is currently the odds-on favourite to be approved first by the MHRA, although candidates from Moderna and Oxford University are close behind. It comes as Britain today confirmed another 20,252 positive coronavirus test results and 511 more people have died. While cases are down – a drop of 26 per cent from the 27,301 recorded last Friday – deaths are continuing to rise, with today’s 511 a 36 per cent increase from 376 this time last week. Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, deputy medical officer for England, said today that the UK is ‘waiting’ for the watchdog’s authorisation to use the vaccine and said it would ‘happen at the speed of science’.  Leaked NHS plans today revealed that even those in… Read full this story

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