Another 16,170 positive Covid tests were added to the Government's count today — down 11.2 per cent on last week's 18,213. Some 800,000 doses of the jab, which requires two doses taken 21 days apart, will be available next week. A lorry leaves Pfizer's manufacturing plant in Puurs, Belgium, this morning after the American firm's Covid-19 vaccine was approved in the UK. Some 800,000 doses of the Pfizer's vaccine — which requires two doses being taken 21 days apart — will be made available 'from next week'. Because the Pfizer suitcases hold 5,000 vaccine doses, smaller quantities would have to be removed from the dry ice suitcases for transport to care homes.

Source: Daily Mail December 02, 2020 16:26 UTC