The report comes after Britain approved the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine
About two million doses of COVID-19 vaccine, developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca, are expected to be delivered every week in the UK by mid-January, The Times reported.
AstraZeneca expects to deliver a total of two million doses of the vaccine next week, the paper reported, citing an unnamed member of the Oxford-AstraZeneca team. “The plan then is to build it up pretty quickly – by the third week of January we should have two million a week,” the report added.
The company was not immediately available to respond to a Reuters request for comment.
The report comes after Britain approved the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, hoping that swift action will help stem a record rise in infections caused by a highly contagious form of the virus. .
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered 100 million doses for the country as part of an agreement with the company. The company had said it plans to deliver millions of doses in the first quarter, adding that the first vaccinations are scheduled to begin this year.
Britain, which has registered more than 50,000 new cases of COVID-19 every day in the past four days, is facing a rapid spread of a much more contagious variant of the coronavirus. On Friday, the UK recorded 53,285 new COVID-19 cases and 613 deaths.
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