The UK government says it will make £84m ($102m) of funding available to researchers working to find a coronavirus vaccine.
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At a briefing earlier, Business Secretary Alok Sharma also said that, with government support, Oxford University had finalised a global licencing agreement with AstraZeneca for the commercialisation and manufacturing of a vaccine.
If the vaccine is successful, the UK will be the first to get access, and will receive 30 million of the 100 million jabs expected to be made.
