COVID-19: BioNTech founder behind coronavirus vaccine says first UK patients could get jab next month

The scientist behind the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine has told Sky News people in the UK could be vaccinated against coronavirus by the middle of next month. Speaking in his first interview with a UK broadcaster, Professor Ugur Sahin, co-founder of German firm BioNTech, said the first vaccines could be rolled out to patients nationwide mid-December. But he said it would depend on whether the UK regulator licenses it in time, adding: 'The earliest time point for supplying vaccines will not be before the middle of December.