Johnson Expects Pfizer, AstraZeneca Vaccines To 'Work Very Well' With No Need For Plan B
Faizan Hashmi Published January 28, 2021 | 12:20 AM
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 28th January, 2021) UK Prime Minister Boris Johson on Wednesday expressed hope that the domestically-made vaccines against the coronavirus, such as that by AstraZeneca/Oxford, as well as those imported from abroad, would be effective.
"There's a pretty overwhelming consensus that they [vaccines], at least some of them, will work very well, and we certainly think that Pfizer and Oxford/AstraZeneca, as far as we can see, will work very well," Johnson said at a briefing when asked what the plan B was if the vaccines failed to curb the spread of the disease.
The prime minister stressed that there were "six or seven" vaccines the UK has already bought, totaling 360 million doses on order.
The UK vaccination campaign started on December 8. As of Wednesday, around 7.1 million people have received at least one vaccine dose. The vaccination is currently open to five priority groups, including people over 80 years old, some people over 70, clinically vulnerable persons, personnel of care homes, and medical workers.
There are currently three authorized vaccines in the United Kingdom � the domestically-made AstraZeneca, the US-German Pfizer/BioNTech, and the one developed by US company Moderna.
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