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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Jane Kirby

First mRNA vaccine to be produced in UK approved by regulators

The UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has now approved the first domestically manufactured mRNA vaccine, Moderna’s Covid-19 Spikevax, for this year’s NHS vaccine campaign.

This groundbreaking drug will be supplied from the Moderna Innovation and Technology Centre in Harwell, Oxfordshire, a facility poised to produce millions of cutting-edge mRNA vaccines.

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