Covid vaccine: When it will be ready and who will get it

It's on everyone's Christmas list - a Covid-19 vaccine this side of New Year. While the government is working to that timeline even the head of its own Vaccines Taskforce thinks that it's very far from certain. And while UK-based companies are increasingly confident they can make the millions of doses we need here in the UK, given stages of development for the different vaccines, it's also likely we'll be relying on contracts for vaccines made overseas. 'We've seen a lot of data with encouraging signs for immune response that we hope will translate into protection against infection,' according to Kate Bingham, Chair of the UK Vaccines Task force.