A provisional list of who gets any new coronavirus vaccine first has been published.
The UK Joint Committee on Vaccines and Immunisation has outlined its proposal for ensuring effective delivery across the country.
The move comes as pharmaceutical giant Pfizer confirmed it has developed a vaccine that's shown to be 90 per cent effective in trials.
The company has been working on with German firm BioNTech and the UK is expected to receive around 10million doses by the end of the year.
The NHS has already been instructed to prepare to roll out a mass vaccination programme as soon as one becomes available.
The committee's scheduled assumes any vaccine is effective in all age groups.
Therefore they agree an age-based programme will be most effective in helping those most at risk.
Here is the provision priority list published by the committee.
1 - older adults in care homes and care home workers
2 - Over 80s, health and social care workers
4 - Over 70s
5 - Over 65s
6 - high-risk adults under 65
7 - moderate risk adults under 65
8 - Over 60s
9 - Over 55s
10 - Over 50s
The vaccine will be rolled out to the remainder of the population with a timescale yet to be determined.
News of the Pfizer vaccine was welcomed by Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon yesterday, but cautioned coronavirus will remain a risk for some time to come.
She said: "This is not going to present us with a way out of this today, tomorrow, next week, or even this calendar year, but this development with all the other work that's going into the development of other vaccines, does give us real hope that in the not too distant future, science is going to find us the way out of this terrible time."
To find out more about the committee's provisional list click here.
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