UK appoints a vaccines minister to oversee millions of coronavirus inoculations

The British government appointed a vaccines minister on Saturday as it prepares to inoculate millions of people against the coronavirus, potentially starting within days.Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Conservative MP Nadhim Zahawi will oversee the country’s biggest vaccine programme in decades.The UK medicines regulator is currently assessing two vaccines – one developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, the other by Oxford University and AstraZeneca – to see if they are safe and effective. The…

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