Don't miss a thing by getting the latest from the Manchester Evening News sent direct to your inbox Thousands of doses of the new Moderna vaccine to protect against Covid-19 will arrive at Greater Manchester’s mass vaccination centre next week, health bosses say.
Chiefs have revealed that 5,000 doses of the vaccine will be delivered to the National Tennis Centre at the Etihad Campus in east Manchester.
The vaccine was approved for use in January and the first UK dose administered in Wales on Wednesday, but it is yet to be used in England or Scotland.
The Moderna jab will be the third vaccine offered in the UK, joining the Pfizer-BioNTech and the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines.