LONDON (UK) – The United Kingdom could provide two doses of COVID-19 vaccine to all adults by August or September, by making use of its portfolio approach for buying from several different producers, the interim head of the country’s vaccine taskforce told Sky News on Tuesday.
Britain has provided COVID vaccine shots to 15.6 million people with a first dose and 546,165 with a second dose.
Clive Dix, who is in the forefront of the group which managed Britain’s vaccine procurement strategy, told Sky News that more vaccines would be given approval for use in the “very near future”, by giving enough shots in case they face any production issues from existing suppliers AstraZeneca and Pfizer.
Regarding the duration it would require to give two doses of the vaccine to all adults, he replied: “We’re probably talking August time or September time all done, maybe sooner if we need to.”
“We’ve got to deliver just over 100 million doses of vaccine and I believe we should be able to do that. I’m not in deployment so I can’t look at the numbers of when they will be. But if they need to be deployed by then, we’ve got the vaccine to do that.”