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Covid vaccine ‘highly likely’ to work on UK variant, BioNTech says

Chief executive, Uğur Şahin, says team will know within two weeks if vaccine works or needs adaption

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The chief executive of the German pharmaceutical company BioNTech has said he is confident its coronavirus vaccine works against the new UK variant, but that further studies are need to be certain.

Uğur Şahin told a press conference that his team had been working on trying to find out whether the vaccine worked on the UK variant or whether it would be necessary to adapt it. Results would be known within two weeks, he said.

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