Covid within weeks. This means, alongside the Pfizer jab already being deployed, strict coronavirus restrictions may be a thing of the past by the end of February.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak says the Covid breakthroughs, combined with the post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, signalled an optimistic new era for the UK, writes the Mail Online.
Mr Sunak says next year will be the first in a "new era of global Britain".The Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency could authorise the vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca as early as New Year's Eve.
Britain has an advance order for 100 million doses, to join a further 40 million doses of the approved Pfizer jab, which has already been rolled out.
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