Britain approved a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca on Wednesday, which was hailed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson as “a triumph for British science.” The government said it had accepted the recommendation from the Medicines and Healthcare Products Experts at the MHRA concluded that the vaccine had met its strict standards of safety, quality, and effectiveness, the Department of Health and Social Care said in a statement. The prime minister said this was “truly fantastic news” and “a triumph for British science.” “We will now move to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible,” he wrote on Twitter. UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock said hundreds of thousands of doses are ready for deployment next week, and then the numbers will “increase significantly after that.” “The hospitals across the country are ready. But we can also use this vaccine in primary care, we can take it to …