The long-awaited Moderna coronavirus vaccine will be dished out in Britain within the next two weeks, No10 s vaccine minister revealed today.
Nadhim Zahawi said the first batch of the jab approved by regulators in January is set to arrive in the third week of this month, with more volume expected in May.
Ministers had promised Moderna s vaccine, which uses mRNA technology such as Pfizer s, would arrive by the spring. Britain has ordered 17million doses.
But confusion erupted over Moderna s supply today, after Nicola Sturgeon revealed the first batch of doses arrived yesterday. If Scotland s First Minister is telling the truth, it means the UK is currently sitting on thousands of vaccines that are proven to work.
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