AstraZeneca-Oxford shot last week, marking its first approval worldwide. It’s the second coronavirus injection to be authorized for emergency use in Britain, after one from Pfizer Inc.
and BioNTech SE received the go-ahead in early December.Also Read | A year on, China is shaking up the worldMore than 500,000 AstraZeneca-Oxford doses will be available as of Monday, and they will be delivered at hospitals for the first few days.
The U.K. aims to expand the number of vaccination sites to more than 1,000, with as many as 100 more hospitals and 180 general practitioner-led services coming online this week.
More than a million people in Britain have received injections of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, according to a statement from the Department.