LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson mentioned Britain was able to roll out a mass COVID-19 vaccination programme nevertheless it was too early to depend on a vaccine as an answer to the coronavirus pandemic.

“I have to stress that these are very, very early days, and we have talked for a very long time, proper concerning the distant bugle of the scientific cavalry coming over the forehead of the hill,” Johnson advised a media convention after Pfizer mentioned its experimental COVID-19 vaccine was greater than 90% efficient.

“I can inform you that tonight that right now that toot, that bugle is louder, nevertheless it’s nonetheless a way off. We completely can’t depend on this information, as an answer.”

(Reporting by Michael Holden. Enhancing by Andrew MacAskill)