Moderna Covid vaccine to be introduced in UK from April

Government confident it will get over-50s vaccinated by 15 April and and remaining adults by end of JulyA third coronavirus vaccine will start being administered in the UK next month, joining the Pfizer and AstraZeneca jabs already in use, the culture secretary, Oliver Dowden, has confirmed.Britain has ordered 17m doses of the Moderna vaccine, which has a94% efficacy rate in trials, and Dowden said the first supplies were expected to arrive in April.Continue reading...
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