There's another vaccine! And we've got 60 million shots! And it's made here!

[HelloThereMeHearties]

And it's effective against the new UK variant!

And it will really wind the EU up!!!

Novavax has passed its stage three trial, now hopefully the MHRA will approve it!!!

@bytheby

I'd much prefer someone vulnerable/old in another country to have a vaccine before me (healthy, thirties)

They will be getting it before you! So I wouldn’t worry about that. As a PP has said, it’s the developing countries that need to also have access to the vaccine otherwise this thing will continue to mutate elsewhere then enter the country again in potentially a more dangerous form.

The EU are going to check every order that leaves the EU, it will have to be signed off before it leaves. Canada has 40 million vaccines on order that are about to leave, how will that work? This is going to hold everything up for everyone. The EU put this in the media, why? Why didn’t they just sort it out with AZ? I’m sure there would’ve been a compromise, they now have made it a trade war, it’s a terrible way to behave.

Lets all go in playground and sing song We've Got a Vaccine.
Pathetic.

@Justthebeerlighttoguide

Has the new Kent variant made it to the eu yet?.

Of course it has, it was sequenced in September.

@Avondklok

British variant is now rampant in Europe due to selfish people travelling over Xmas.

??? Evidence for this? Who was travelling at Christmas? The borders were shut. Ski resorts were shut other than in Switzerland.

This comment is utter nonsense.

@HelloThereMeHearties

It's cheered me up so much this evening. I was feeling really down about this big AstraZeneca fight, and Sturgeon supporting the EU over it, and it was all awful.

And now - fantastic news!! Kate Bingham should be made a Dame!!

She’s a little twerp her!

Using a pandemic to her advantage to try and get Scottish independence. She’s pathetic and completely selfish for constantly pushing her own agenda.

@Avondklok there were no flights to be had at Christmas.
I returned to the EU by ferry, no choice, and there were 2 lorries and 5 cars.

OP remember MN is full of remainers so your bound to get shot down.

I think we should be dam proud of the vaccs.

And it will really wind the EU up!!!

The EU can sort it’s own mess out.

I’d rather we helped poorer countries with our vaccines.

@Baileysforchristmas

The EU are going to check every order that leaves the EU, it will have to be signed off before it leaves. Canada has 40 million vaccines on order that are about to leave, how will that work? This is going to hold everything up for everyone. The EU put this in the media, why? Why didn’t they just sort it out with AZ? I’m sure there would’ve been a compromise, they now have made it a trade war, it’s a terrible way to behave.

The EU didn't put this in the media. The first incling of trouble brewing was UK government 'sources' briefing the UK media that the EU wouldn't get any vaccines made in the UK until they'd got all their theirs. AstraZenica responded to this by publicly announcing that the EU would only get 40% of their order. Then the EU kicked off.

??? Evidence for this? Who was travelling at Christmas? The borders were shut. Ski resorts were shut other than in Switzerland.

This comment is utter nonsense.

The expat forums I'm on were full of people figuring out how to get around the rules to travel home for Christmas.

Oh dear. The EU will definitely be spitting out their dummies and throwing toys out of their prams at this news......

Very few people seem to be mentioning the impact on the poorer nations of the EUs behaviour ... it’s coming across as being just aimed at the UK

Why do people not read the technical material. There is no point in the U.K. being vaccinated and not others as variants will just continue to mutate in unvaccinated countries and the vaccines not be effective.

It’s nothing to do with stupid comments of U.K. v EU. My parents are in Belgium where the vaccine is manufactured - they are unlikely to be vaccinated for months.

I am dismayed at how all of this is playing out. It makes me sad and despair of what the future brings.

I hope the vaccination programme brings down the death rates and fast.

The death rates per million by country do not make for comfortable reading. The rates in Belgium and the UK are very high.

Great news

KB made good decisions, she was explaining how U.K. got such a high amount for a relatively small country

@Wishitsnows

I am so impressed by UK pharmaceuticals. I didn't know how world leading they were.

Novavax is an American company and it was designed in the US

It is pretty wonderful news for the UK and elsewhere. All this is making the EU look pretty awful (and I say that as a remainer). It is really important that the richer countries help the poorer countries to gain access to the vaccination and it isn't just the richer countries fighting over access.

@FatCatThinCat it was in the media before that. German newspaper from a German government source.

Vaccines urgently need diverted from the U.K. and EU to the poorer nations. One of them has only received 25 vaccines !

This is brilliant news! The issue is, can it be scaled up though as it’s made from a protein so differently from the other vaccines.

Anyway I think this is going to blow over and a compromise will be made now, it could’ve been handled so much better without all the threats and media involved.

And it will really wind the EU up!!!

Pathetic response - millions dying from a ghastly disease with our own country having at least 100,000 deaths, but hey, we Brexiters have stuck it to the EU.