By James Gallagher and Nick Triggle, BBC News — 30 December 2020
The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has been approved for use in the UK, with the first doses due to be given on Monday. There will be 530,000 doses available from the first week, with priority going to care home residents, the over-80s, and health and care workers. The UK has ordered 100 million doses — enough to vaccinate 50 million people. The Oxford vaccine is easier to store at normal fridge temperature, unlike the Pfizer-BioNTech jab that must be kept at -70C. PM Boris Johnson hailed it as “a triumph for British science,” adding: “We will now move to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible.”