Professor Andrew Pollard, the director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, celebrated the "extraordinary effort" of scientists and researchers after the Oxford vaccine was approved.

This makes the Oxford vaccine the second coronavirus vaccine to be approved in the UK.

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