Two COVID19 vaccines are currently being administered in the UK - but there are several more that have been ordered and are yet to be approved
Two COVID-19 vaccines are currently being administered in the UK - but there are several more that have been ordered and are yet to be approved.vaccine programme off to a start on 8 December after being given emergency approval by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency less than a week before.jab also started being administered after approval on 30 December.
It is an mRNA vaccine, like the Pfizer jab, and trials have found it to be 95% effective in preventing COVID-19.The Novavax vaccine is awaiting approval from the MHRA, which is expected imminently but isNovavax, an American vaccine development company that also has facilities in Sweden, started developing a COVID vaccine in January 2020.It is a protein subunit vaccine that contains the spike protein of the COVID virus.
It was approved in the US in February and the EU in March after trials found it was 67% effective at preventing COVID-19 and completely effective at preventing hospital admissions and death from the virus. If it is approved, 60m doses are expected to be administered in the second half of 2021 and the remaining 40m next year in case boosters are needed.Not approved: GlaxoSmithKline/Sanofi Pasteur - 60m doses ordered
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