The Government’s list of priority individuals includes “clinically extremely vulnerable”, some of whom will have lung conditions.
While ministers have not pinpointed a date as to when they can expect a vaccine, the cohort is fourth on the list of nine recipients.
They will follow NHS and frontline workers and over 75s who will receive their vaccines soon.
But it is not clear whether people with asthma fall into this category, according to the British Lung Foundation.