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Wires Report MHRA Set To Approve Moderna Jab, But No Deliveries Until Spring

UK

Wires and social media reporting that the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) could be set to approve the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine as early as today, raising the number of approved vaccines in the country to three (alongside the Pfizer/BioNTech and AstraZeneca/Oxford University jabs).

  • However, this is will not deliver any increase in the ability to increase vaccinations any time soon. The government has only ordered 7mn doses of the Moderna vaccine and even then these are not set to arrive in the UK until April at the earliest.

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