The Times’. It could be given the required clearances by Christmas in December, the newspaper reported.If it is approved by the regulators, the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is said to be in a position to begin mass vaccination almost immediately.A full vaccine roll-out programme for adults could take six months or less after approval, a source told the newspaper, according to the reports. “We are looking at closer to six months and it is likely to be far shorter than that," a government source said.
The UK government has ordered 100 million doses of the Oxford vaccine once it is ready for roll-out and the doses are being manufactured before it has been shown to be successful in order to save time once it clears all the regulatory.