Coronavirus: Vaccination

(asked on 22nd January 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many doses of the (a) Pfizer-BioNTech and (b) Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are physically present in the UK and being held in storage, yet to be deployed or prepared for delivery.


Answered by
Nadhim Zahawi Portrait
Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 27th January 2021

The Government has procured 40 million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech and 100 million doses of the Oxford University/AstraZeneca vaccines.

The UK was the first country in the world to start a vaccination programme using these vaccines. As of 26 January 2021, over 6.85 million people across the UK have been vaccinated with the first dose of the vaccine. We continue to work to meet our target of vaccinating all four priority groups by 15 February.

Vaccines are a precious resource in very high demand across the world; therefore, for security reasons it is not possible to provide detail about the size of our supplies and exact detail about deliveries.

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