coronavirus vaccine developed by BioNTech and Pfizer next week and deliveries would begin within hours of the authorization, the Financial Times reported on Saturday.The first immunizations using the BioNTech and Pfizer vaccine could take place from Dec.
7, the Financial Times said, citing unnamed sources.Earlier in the day, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson named Nadhim Zahawi, currently a junior business minister, as the minister responsible for the deployment of COVID-19 vaccines.Britain said on Nov.
20 it had formally asked its medical regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), to assess the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for its suitability, the first step in making it available outside the United.