Every adult will be offered a vaccine by autumn, Matt Hancock, the health secretary, promised yesterday on the eve of the first mass vaccination centres opening this morning.
Boris Johnson will visit a site in the southwest as it begins to inoculate people over 80 and health and social care staff. Mr Hancock claimed that the inoculation programme was on track to meet its first target by February 15. However, nurses in London offered the vaccine to friends before it spoiled when patients missed appointments.
Writing in The Times Red Box Mr Hancock and Pascal Soriot, the chief executive of Astrazeneca, wrote that it was “important to remember that the manufacture of vaccines is a biologic process that is subject to variability”. They added: “Astrazeneca
