A coronavirus vaccine could be rolled out in Britain in less than two weeks, with NHS hospitals instructed to prepare for their first deliveries between December 7 and December 9.
The rapid timeframe, reported by the Guardian, will depend on whether the Pfizer/BioNTech jab is approved by the UK’s medicines regulator.
It comes as the Government was forced to apologise after a Test and Trace error saw more than 1,300 people wrongly told they have Covid-19 between last Thursday and Monday.
Meanwhile, England has begun its final weekend of lockdown, with 99 per cent of the population set to face the toughest two tiers of of restrictions when the national shutdown ends on Wednesday.
