An army of 10,000 medics and volunteers has reportedly been drafted in to help deliver Britain's second Covid inoculation, with the first jabs expected to be administered in days.
Regulators could approve the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine on Monday, with Downing Street having already bought 100 million doses in anticipation of a reported January 4 roll out.
It comes after the British-Swedish pharmaceutical firm's boss raised hopes it is more effective than first thought amid the rapid spread of a new mutated strain of Covid-19.
Millions more people across England have been warned they may be thrust into Tier 4 restrictions in a desperate bid to control the variant.