A cabinet minister has insisted Covid-19 border closures will not affect deliveries of vaccines from the continent. Disruption is expected to supplies of fresh food in the UK after France banned hauliers from travelling across the channel after a new strain of the virus was identified in the UK.
But Transport Secretary Grant Shapps insisted the delivery of vaccine doses would not be affected. said: "Yes I can and the reason is actually that the vaccine wasn't coming in through the roll on, roll off - precious few lorries had brought it in that way. "It comes via containers and the container traffic isn't affected at all, so this isn't an issue with the vaccine at all and indeed will never be an issue for medicines regardless because we have