After a desperate, deadly year of coronavirus, the UK's vaccination programme has delivered first doses to 15 million of the oldest and most vulnerable.

Sky's Paul Kelso takes a look at how the government decided which COVID-19 vaccines to back during the early stages of their development - and how this allowed Britain to get ahead of the curve when the time came to start rolling out the jabs.

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