Boris Johnson watched the Oxford jab being given at Chase Farm Hospital in north LondonMillions of vials of the Oxford vaccine are being held up in a testing backlog, it emerged yesterday as the first doses were administered across the UK. Downing Street has promised that two million doses of the newly approved Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine would be administered each week if enough supplies are available, but doubts have been raised about the target as batches containing millions of doses remain in warehouses waiting for safety approval and just 530,000 doses are available. At the modest launch of Britain’s second vaccine, Boris Johnson blamed the medicines regulator for any delays. Brian Pinker, 82, first to get Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccineA member of the Oxford-Astrazeneca team said there were four million doses in the UK, waiting to be “batch tested and signed off” by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory

Source: The Times January 05, 2021 00:02 UTC