Vaccine to put holidays back on bucket list

THE imminent rollout of the Oxford University vaccine will allow people to go on holiday next summer, according to a top pharmaceutical expert.

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The jab developed with AstraZeneca is expected to be approved in the UK and India this week, potentially as early as tomorrow or Tuesday.

This has been hailed as a game-changer because unlike the existing Pfizer BioNtech vaccine, which the UK was the first to approve globally, but needs to be kept at -70C, the Oxford one is much easier to store and transport.

The Government has ordered more than 100 million doses of the Oxford vaccine and 40 million of these will be available at GP surgeries nationwide by the end of March.