UK COVID-19 Vaccine Spending Near £12 Billion: Report

Vials of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are seen during a vaccination clinic at the Sir Ludwig Guttmann Health and Wellbeing Centre in Stratford, England, on Dec. 15, 2020. Leon Neal/Getty Images

The current estimate of spending on COVID-19 vaccinations is £11.7 billion ($15.9 billion), the UK’s public spending watchdog reported on Wednesday.

This includes the purchasing and manufacturing of vaccines for the whole of the UK and their deployment in England, and support for the research and development of potential vaccines.