In what has been described by the Pfizer CEO as a "historic moment", a UK Department of Health and Social Care spokesman confirmed today that : “The government has accepted the recommendation from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Authority (MHRA) to approve Pfizer/BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine for use."
With that, the UK has become the first western country to license a Covid-19 vaccine and will begin the rollout as early as next week, when 800,000 doses are to be made available for those most at risk. , which has been aggregating and analyzing data on vaccine procurement and manufacturing, indicates that the UK has procured 355 million vaccine doses from seven different companies as of 30 November - 40 million of which are from Pfizer/BioNTech.
