The UK will become the first country to use the vaccine produced by Pfizer / Bioentech this week. The government has said that the vaccine will be provided first in hospitals, only then it will be available in clinics.
Vaccination campaign will start in the country from Tuesday. The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is giving top priority to people over 80 years of age, healthcare workers and frontline workers in vaccination.
The UK had last week given permission for emergency use of the vaccine produced by Pfizer / BioNotech. It had become the first country to do so. Regarding vaccination to fight corona, it has been reported that this is going to be the most important mass vaccination program in the history so far.
England, 50 hospitals have initially been selected as hubs for vaccine operations. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will also begin their immunization programs from hospitals from Tuesday. Croydon University Hospital in South London became the first hospital in Britain to receive a vaccine delivery on Sunday.
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Around 800,000 doses of the vaccine are expected to be available in the UK from next week. However, the government has so far ordered 40 million vaccine doses. These are sufficient for the vaccination of two crore people, who are to be given two doses of vaccine in a span of 21 days.
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