In the last twelve months, there have been incredible scientific breakthroughs. Never before have vaccines been generated, developed, tested and approved at this speed. But with the NHS approaching breaking point and after days of worrying deaths related to Covid, there was a new urgency in the government’s vaccination efforts this week.
The observer’s science editor, Robin McKie, tell Anushka Asthana that scientists work in laboratories 24 hours a day to produce doses of the vaccine and that after high problems with the test-and-trace systems there can be no excuse to disrupt the vaccination.
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