Naman Ramachandran The U.K. has approved the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for COVID-19, and the first doses will be administered from Jan.
4.Some 100 million doses of the vaccine have been ordered and this, combined with the previously approved Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, will be enough to cover the 67 million U.K.
population, according to health secretary Matt Hancock.“It is truly fantastic news – and a triumph for British science – that the @UniofOxford/@AstraZeneca vaccine has been approved for use.
We will now move to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible,” tweeted U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson.It is truly fantastic news – and a triumph for British science – that the @UniofOxford /@AstraZeneca vaccine has been approved for.
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