LONDON (Bywire News) - On Thursday, the government approved French firm Valneva's COVID-19 vaccine, making it the sixth available coronavirus shot in the nation.
The UK's independent medicine regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency said that it was the first regulator globally to approve the vaccine.
The regulator went on to add that it was the first, whole-virus inactivated COVID-19 shot to get approval.
(Reporting by Aby Jose Koilparambil in Bengaluru; editing by Klaudia Fior)