UK To Start COVID-19 Vaccinations Next Week

BioNTech SE and Pfizer announced that the Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in the U.K. has granted a temporary authorization for emergency use for their COVID-19 mRNA vaccine (BNT162b2), against COVID-19.

Dr. June Raine, MHRA added: “We’ve been able to authorize supply of this vaccine under provisions under European law which exist until January 1st.”

The UK's Health Secretary Matt Hancock declaring in a Tweet on December 2, 2020, that ‘help is on its way’. He said the NHS ‘stands ready to start vaccinating from early next week’, adding: ‘The UK is the first country in the world to have a clinically approved vaccine for supply.’