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Covid vaccine could be rolled out in UK as soon as December 1st, claims Matt Hancock

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coronavirus vaccine from December 1, the health secretary has claimed. Matt Hancock this morning said the government was "working very closely" with the drug giant.He told BBC Breakfast that the UK would be ready to deploy its breakthrough jab "as soon as it comes".

He added: "We'll be ready from the first of December... but more likely is that we may be able to start rolling it out before Christmas." Mr Hancock said the number of vaccines Britain would need depended on how effective it is at preventing coronavirus spreading.The jab stops nine in ten people from falling ill with Covid-19 but it's not clear if it prevents them infecting others, Pfizer and German partner BioNTech announced last week.Meanwhile, scientists today started testing.

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