Coronavirus vaccine roll out could start 'by December 1', says Health Secretary Matt Hancock

direct to your inboxBritain's vaccine breakthrough could lead to the end of the coronavirus restrictions before March, the health secretary has said.The first doses of the Pfizer vaccine are being shipped out to locations across the UK this weekend after it was approved for use.It is expected jabs will start to be administered from Tuesday.And in an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, Matt Hancock said he believes it will mean the current tiering system of restrictions could be loosened in the

direct to your inbox Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said efforts are being made to ensure care home residents receive the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine as soon as possible as the UK roll out begins next week.

coronavirus vaccine, which was approved by the UK's medicines regulator this week, will be rolled out from next Tuesday in NHS hospital hubs.

coronavirus restrictions from next Wednesday, December 2.Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced which areas would be placed in which tiers on Thursday.He said the tiers will be reviewed in a fortnight and kept "regularly under review after that".Mr Hancock also said that the measures are necessary given the "scale of the threat" faced by the UK.Lancashire was placed into Tier 3 after national and local government wrangling when the system was first introduced in October.The new system, however,

coronavirus lockdown ends.

COVID-19 vaccine which has been developed by the University of Oxford and manufacturer AstraZeneca.The trial revealed that while the vaccine is 70 percent effective against coronavirus, it can increase to 90 percent when one half dose is given and followed by a full dose at least one month later.The UK has placed orders for 100 million doses of the vaccine, which is enough to vaccinate most of the population, if the jab receives regulatory approval.The government has also ordered 40m doses of a

“We have just got to get on with this as soon as possible.”Health Secretary Matt Hancock called the data from AstraZeneca and Oxford University “really encouraging news”, but stressed that vaccines need to be approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).“This is really encouraging news on the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine, that obviously we’ve been backing since the start,” he told Sky News.“And I’m really very pleased, really welcome these figures, this data, that

coronavirus vaccine will be rolled out if one is approved by the UK's medicines regulator.

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