The UK has become the first country to approve a Covid-19 vaccine following large-scale clinical trials and is set to make the shot from BioNTech and Pfizer available from “next week”.
Germany’s BioNTech and US pharma giant Pfizer said doses of the vaccine would be delivered to the UK in the coming days after the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency gave the go-ahead on Tuesday evening.
The vaccine is 95 per cent effective in preventing the disease, according to data released last month from the?companies’ phase-3 trial, which involved more than 43,000 people.
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