Moderna Vaccine Authorised for UK Use, 17 Million Doses Ordered
NEW: the @Moderna_tx vaccine is authorised to be used within the UK!
I’m additionally delighted affirm the @beisgovuk Vaccine Taskforce has at this time secured an additional 10m doses of their vaccine, taking our complete order to 17m
One other enormous step in direction of ending lockdown and returning to regular life pic.twitter.com/pM1l1jx2Xu
— Alok Sharma (@AlokSharma_RDG) January 8, 2021
This takes the UK’s orders of MHRA authorised vaccines to 157 million. Not too shabby…
- 100m – Oxford
- 40m – Pfizer
- 17m – Moderna
Going ahead, the trial phases of different vaccines and doses ordered are as follows:
- Janssen – Section III – 30 million doses secured
- Novavax – Section III – 60 million doses secured
- GSK/Sanofi – Section I / II – 60 million doses secured
- Valneva – Section I / II – 60 million doses secured, with an possibility to accumulate an additional 130 million if the vaccine is confirmed to be secure, efficient and appropriate
367 million in complete. It wasn’t that way back Sir Keir was launching sustained assaults towards the UK’s vaccine taskforce…