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COVID-19: Moderna vaccine boss ‘very confident’ on effectiveness

The President of a US company producing a coronavirus vaccine proven to be 94.5% effective has told Sky News he’s confident it will protect those most at-risk from COVID-19.

Stephen Hoge from Moderna, based in Massachusetts, told Sky News said he’d been in an on-going conversation with the UK government – and Health Secretary Matt Hancock has now confirmed five million doses of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine has been ordered, enough for 2.5 million people.

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