The jab will be administered at a small number of hospitals for the first few days for surveillance purposes, NHS England said.
British regulators have adopted the phrase ‘safety is our watchword’.
Authorities claim the pharmacist deliberately removed 57 vials that held hundreds of doses of the Moderna vaccine.
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.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that overrunning of the NHS would be a ‘medical and moral disaster’.
A WORRYING trend in coronavirus cases in Scotland has been highlighted in a ‘Covid calculator’.
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation said care home residents must be among those given priority.
SEVEN people with links to the driving school at the Police Scotland Training College in Tulliallan have tested positive for COVID-19.
The public has been warned the increase is a reminder of the ‘ongoing risk as the virus spreads throughout the UK’.