Britain is backing the first new TB vaccine in more than 100 years which is expected to save millions of lives.
Immunity from the current BCG childhood jab - the most widely used vaccine in the world - wanes before the teenage years.
It comes weeks after a Mirror investigation into the TB pandemic in South Africa revealed how lack of funding has meant no adult vaccine has been developed as the disease is this year expected to overtake Covid-19 as the world’s most deadly infectious disease killing about 4,300 people a day.
