Britain on Saturday appointed a vaccine minister as it prepares to inoculate millions of people against the virus, potentially starting within days. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Conservative lawmaker Nadhim Zahawi will oversee the country’s biggest vaccine program in decades. The announcement was made as the Financial Times reported that the UK is set to approve the BioNTech Pfizer vaccine next week. The UK medicines regulator is also assessing another vaccine by Oxford University and AstraZeneca to see if they are safe and effective. This rate is based on several modeling studies, the head of the WHO’s vaccine department, Katherine O’Brien, told a press conference in Geneva.

Source: The Nation November 29, 2020 12:04 UTC