Drug firm to begin making potential coronavirus vaccine

Drug company AstraZeneca is to start producing a potential vaccine for coronavirus, its boss has told the BBC.

Trials of the drug are under way but Pascal Soriot said the firm must start making doses now so that it can meet demand if the vaccine proves effective.

"We are starting to manufacture this vaccine right now - and we have to have it ready to be used by the time we have the results," he said.

AstraZeneca said it will be able supply two billion doses of the vaccine.