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Assistant technical officer Lukasz Najdrowski unpacks doses of the Oxford University/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine as they arrive at the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath, West Sussex
Batches of the newly approved coronavirus vaccine from Oxford University and AstraZeneca have started arriving at hospitals ahead of the jab’s rollout.
Some 530,000 doses of the vaccine will be available for rollout across the UK from Monday, with vulnerable groups already identified as the priority for immunisation.
One of the first hospitals to take delivery of a batch on Saturday morning was the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath, part of Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust.
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The scientist leading the UK coronavirus vaccination programme has defended the decision to extend the gap between the two doses, insisting it is the way we save lives .
Professor Jonathan Van-Tam says waiting 12 weeks between jabs rather than the original three will protect those most at risk of dying from Covid-19, adding that the focus must be to deliver first vaccine doses to as many people, in the shortest possible timeframe .
As the first supplies of the Oxford vaccine arrived in the UK yesterday, the Deputy Chief Medical Officer – who has become the trusted face of Downing Street press conferences during the crisis – predicted that tens of millions of doses will be available by the end of March.
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Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine delivered to UK hospitals ahead of rollout
The Covid-19 jab is the second to be approved for use in the UK and doses will be given from Monday with Wales set to have thousands available in the first week
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