Cabinet minister Liz Truss hints the UK WILL export Covid jabs before everyone in the UK is covered saying new drugs 'won't benefit people in Britain if we become a vaccinated island' with disease rife elsewhere
A senior Cabinet minister refused to rule out sending doses of Covid jabs earmarked for British citizens abroad today as she blasted 'vaccine nationalism and protectionism'.
Trade Secretary Liz Truss said that Britain becoming a 'vaccinated island' while the disease remained rampant elsewhere would be bad for the UK.
Ministers and officials have not ruled out the possibility that vaccines could be sent abroad after the most vulnerable domestic recipients have been covered if it does not slow its plans for all adults to be jabbed by the autumn.
Ms Truss told Sky this morning: 'It's a bit too early to say how we would deploy excess vaccines. But we certainly want to work with friends and neighbours, we want to work with developing countries, because we are only going to solve this issue once everybody in the world is vaccinated.
'Some of these supplies there have been supply issues so we need to make sure the new drugs that are coming online are delivered, the population is vaccinated. But of course as we are developing that, we are also working with other countries about how we can help.
'Because it won't benefit people in Britain if we become a vaccinated island and many other countries don't have the vaccine, because the virus will continue to spread, so we need to tackle this on a global basis.'
Trade Secretary Liz Truss said that Britain becoming a 'vaccinated island' while the disease remained rampant elsewhere would be bad for the UK.
Ministers and officials have not ruled out the possibility that vaccines could be sent abroad after the most vulnerable domestic recipients have been covered if it does not slow its plans for all adults to be jabbed by the autumn.
Ms Truss told Sky this morning: 'It's a bit too early to say how we would deploy excess vaccines. But we certainly want to work with friends and neighbours, we want to work with developing countries, because we are only going to solve this issue once everybody in the world is vaccinated.
Ms Truss said the UK can 'absolutely guarantee' its programme of delivery of the Covid-19 vaccine.
She said: 'The Prime Minister (Boris Johnson) has spoken to Ursula von der Leyen. She has been very clear that those contractual supplies won't be disrupted.
'That's a very important assurance and, of course, we also have our UK-produced vaccines as well, and if you look at our vaccines pipeline, 367 million doses, we have a significant supply to be able to vaccinate the UK population.'
Asked if she could guarantee that everyone who has had the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine will get their second dose, Ms Truss added: 'We can absolutely guarantee our programme of delivery of the vaccine.
'We have received assurances from the EU about the supply, under contract, of all of those vaccines.'
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2021-01-31 09:25:00Z
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