The UK Government has an in-principle agreement for 60 million doses.
The jab will be administered at a small number of hospitals for the first few days for surveillance purposes, NHS England said.
The country aims to vaccinate 300 million people by August.
Limerick’s Vinod Bajaj believes he is the first man to walk the equivalent distance.
Health chiefs told doctors surgeries they must be able to administer all 975 doses in the vaccine packs with three-and-a-half days from mid-December.
Scientists from the UK and Germany say the drug aprotinin could stop Covid-19 entering host cells in the body.