COVID news live – latest UK updates: UK to get 'some millions' of Pfizer vaccine doses by end of year, says business secretary

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Sky News understands some of the delivery of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is coming through the Eurotunnel todayRyanair is purchasing 75 brand new aircraft, setting its sights on the end of the coronavirus crisis.Criticisms of the speed with which the UK approved the first coronavirus vaccine are"mistaken", a former regulator has said, adding that approval was faster in the UK because Brexit gave the regulator a brief moment of"spare capacity.

"I suspect Dr. Fauci doesn't necessarily know all the details of the MHRA procedures," said Professor Evans. Professor Evans said that the regulatory process for the vaccine had been hugely accelerated in all countries by the decision to perform rolling reviews which examined the data from the clinical trials while they were being conducted.

However, Professor Evans warned that the breathing space would end once the transition period comes to an end, saying that"once we get into 2021, there won't be the spare capacity, so it may well be that the UK is a bit slower in the future." It emerged today that the EMA and the World Health Organisation had asked the MHRA to see the data it had used to assess the Pfizer vaccine.

The targeting of a logistical chain to transport coronavirus vaccines around the world could have been a soft underbelly for the hackers to steal even more sensitive secrets from governments. "Moving laterally through networks and remaining there in stealth would allow them to conduct cyber espionage and collect additional confidential information from the victim environments for future operations," it said in a blog post.

"A compromise of such technologies could result in intellectual property theft or stealing and selling vaccine shipping containers in black markets across the globe," The IBM researchers said.Some 14,879 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the latest reporting period, according to the government.It now means the UK has surpassed 60,000 coronavirus-related deaths.

Since winning the election, Mr Biden has made defeating coronavirus his key policy and has assembled his own specialist advisory board to hit the ground running after his inauguration. "On the basis that we recieve the vaccine supply we expect when we expect it, we should be able to vaccinate the first phase by Spring of next year," she adds.Daily podcast - vaccine special

On this edition of the Sky News Daily podcast with Dermot Murnaghan, we are joined by our correspondents Rowland Manthorpe and Kate McCann as we discuss the milestone and the challenge ahead. Asked if poeople would be able to choose between vaccines, Dr Ramasamy told a Royal Society of Medicine webinar:"At the moment I think it's going to be logistics that affect which vaccine you're offered.

In a long thread of tweets, Chris Hopson - chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents all NHS trusts - has set out some of the work those hospitals will be doing over the next few days...COVID-19 case rates in England are continuing to fall in all age groups, according to the latest weekly surveillance report from Public Health England.

"This could include false claims about the safety, efficacy, ingredients or side-effects of the vaccines. He said:"We are looking very closely into the use of technology in this COVID-19 response and one of them is how we can work with member states toward an e-vaccination certificate."Premier League and English Football League agree £250m COVID rescue package

A top World Health Organisation official reveals the EU's regulator has asked the UK to share information on its approval of the Pfizer vaccine,Dr Siddhartha Sankar Datta, the WHO's programme manager for vaccine-preventable diseases and immunisation, says:"The evaluation of the Pfizer vaccine was done by the UK's national regulatory authority.

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