The UK Government has secured early access to 90 million vaccine doses to protect the UK from coronavirus. In addition, treatments containing Covid-19-neutralising antibodies have been secured from to protect those who cannot receive vaccines.
The vaccine doses are from the BioNTech/Pfizer alliance and Valneva while the antibodies have been secured from AstraZeneca.
The public are being urged to sign up to a new NHS website to make it quicker and easier for potential volunteers to join vital studies that could help save lives – the aim is to get 500,000 people signed up by October.
The Government says millions of people could be vaccinated against coronavirus with access to the 90 million doses. Announced by Business Secretary Alok Sharma
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