Health Secretary Matt Hancock revealed that the NHS could begin vaccinating people from the start of December.
Mr Hancock told Sky News that no vaccine will be deployed until the Government is ‘confident’ of its safety.
Meanwhile, the 14-day travel quarantine period is set to be ‘much reduced’ for travellers returning to Britain, the Transport Secretary has announced.
Brits are banned from going on foreign holidays during lockdown, but when restrictions are lifted, arrivals are expected to face two weeks in self-isolation upon returning from most countries.
The news comes as the UK recorded another 21,350 coronavirus cases and 194 more deaths in the past 24 hours.
There have now been 1,213,363 confirmed cases of the disease in the UK, and a total of 49,063 people have died since the start of the pandemic.
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source https://metro.co.uk/2020/11/10/coronavirus-news-live-nhs-vaccine-people-holiday-lockdown-covid-uk-13567971/