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A sixth coronavirus vaccine has been approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). The independent medicines regulator is the first in the world to approve the jab, developed by Valneva.

direct to your inboxPeople will be able to go abroad on summer holidays next year, the government’s coronavirus vaccine chief has predicted.Kate Bingham has said that while the virus would never completely disappear, by the summer of 2021 "we should be in a much better place to get on planes".The coronavirus vaccine taskforce chairwoman made her comments on the day the NHS began the roll-out of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine.Ms Bingham told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "My gut feel is that we will all be going on summer holidays."It is likely that those people most at risk will be vaccinated through to April, and then the JCVI (Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation) and the Department for Health will then consider how to broaden out

Covid-19 vaccine being ready before Christmas, a health chief has confirmed. Kate Bingham assures that she was 'hopeful' of getting the vaccine and trial data from the Oxford Study before the end of the year.

Fewer than half of Brits may end up getting a coronavirus vaccine, the head of the country's vaccine taskforce has said.