The Health Ministry said on its agreed to purchase an additional 10 million doses as it I'd a spring roll out of the US made shot.

Three covert 19 vaccines have now been approved for use in Britain, the Pfizer by and Tech Jab on one developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca already being administered.

Britain now has 17 million doses of Madonna's vaccine.

On order.

Supplies will begin to be delivered to the UK from the spring once the US company expands its production capability.

Britain was the first to approve fighters and AstraZeneca's vaccines in a bid to get the population vaccinated quickly.

But it's behind some other major countries in giving the go ahead to the Madonna shot.

Madonna's vaccine was 94% effective in preventing disease in late stage clinical trials.

It's already being given regulatory approval the use in the United States, Canada, the European Union on Israel.

On Friday, the mayor of London declared a major incident in the British capital, saying hospital beds will run out in the next few weeks unless urgent action was taken to drastically stop the spread of the disease.

The number of people in hospital is 35% higher during the peak of the pandemic in April.