Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will be rolled out in UK from Monday – Hancock

FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Health Secretary Matt Hancock, speaks on further restrictions to be put in place due to the ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic at a news conference inside 10 Downing Street in London, Britain December 23, 2020. Kirsty Wigglesworth/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

LONDON (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine are ready to be rolled out in Britain from Monday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said after the shot was approved by regulators.

“We’ll get going on this from Monday,” he told the BBC. “The number (of doses) that will be ready for next week is in the hundreds of thousands, and then the numbers increase.”