UK orders 60m more doses of Pfizer Covid vaccine for booster jabs

UK orders 60m more doses of Pfizer Covid vaccine for booster jabs The UK has ordered a further 60m doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid vaccine in an effort to ensure that booster jabs can be given from this autumn, the government has announced.

The health secretary, Matt Hancock, made the announcement at a Downing Street press conference on Wednesday and said the extra doses would be used alongside other approved vaccines in “protecting the progress that we have made”.  The Guardian

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