Britain decided not to buy US vaccine and earliest it could be supplied to UK is spring 2021
The UK has not acquired the Moderna vaccine but is in “advanced discussions” to ensure British access, officials have said, while cautioning that no one in the UK would be able to be given it until spring next year.
A government spokesman said the company was scaling up its European supply chain but that it would be around four to six months before the vaccine might be available in the UK, a far longer timeframe than the Pfizer-BionTech vaccine, which the chief scientific officer has said could be available by Christmas.
100m doses of the University of Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine
40m doses of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine, reported last week to have 90% effectiveness
60m doses of Novavax vaccine
