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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday said that he will take the vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca after a number of European countries halted their rollout of the jab over safety fears.
Johnson dismissed questions in parliament about why several countries had suspended the use of the product developed by the British-Swedish pharmaceutical company with scientists at Oxford University.
But he told lawmakers, “I finally got the news and I’ve got to have my own jab, very shortly, I’m pleased to discover.”
It will certainly be Oxford AstraZeneca, that I will be having, he added.
Johnson, 56, is among the next category of people being called for vaccination. The government hopes to have offered it to all adults by July.
Britain is also using a jab developed by PfizerBioNTech in its rollout program but recipients do not normally get a choice.
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