UK secures additional 2 million doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine

In its latest vaccine deal, United Kingdom has secured an ditional two million doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate, ministration confirmed in a statement. latest dition was me to alrey purchase five million doses of Moderna’s mRNA-1273 vaccine. As of w, Boris Johnson led government which is aiming to roll out vaccines in late December,  has secured over 357 million vaccines doses through agreements with several separate vaccine developers including AstraZeneca vaccine – phase 3 clinical trials BioNTech/Pfizer, Safi- GSK, Oxford-AstraZeneca amongst ors.

_{Vaccine doses secured by British Government, Source: gov.uk}

"With a wide range of vaccine candidates in our portfolio, we stand rey to deploy a vaccine should y receive approval from our medicines regulator, starting with those who will benefit most," health minister, Matt Hancock, said in statement.

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£230 million investment 

According to official data, country has invested over £230 million into manufacturing any successful vaccine and planning and programming rollout of any vaccine that gets approval by health officials. On vember 28,  government officially appointed Nhim Zahawi as minister responsible for COVID-19 vaccine deployment in country. anuncement came days after Labor Party leers warned that position was required to prevent mistakes previously committed over testing and PPE distribution. news was shared on Twitter by Zahawi who termed it as “big responsibility and operational challenge”.

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Zahawi, who is currently serving as minister of Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy would serve health ministry. As per Independent, temporary position is set to last until next summer but could extend. UK, which is aiming to deploy COVID-19 vaccines by December has reported over 1,500,000 coronavirus cases till w.

Meanwhile, UK is prepping for new Three-tier regulation system, which would come into effect from December 1. Under three-tier system, all parts of UK will be identified and segregated under three-tiered restrictions—with tier one being medium alert, tier two being high alert and tier three as very high alert—depending on number of coronavirus cases in area. 

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