Fewer than half of Brits may end up getting a coronavirus vaccine, the head of the country's vaccine taskforce has said. Kate Bingham told the Financial Times that officials hoped to be able to administer the medicine to around 30 million adults in the country of around 67 million.
It sheds a new light on Boris Johnson's repeated pledges to roll out a vaccine once one can be approved. The UK has reserved hundreds of millions of doses from various schemes, and the PM said yesterday: "It’s possible that we will make significant progress on the vaccine this year. "I went to see the scientists at AstraZeneca in Oxford and those teams they seem to be doing fantastically well." However, Ms Bingham urged caution.