UK Receives the First Batch of the Ordered Pfizer-BioNTech Coronavirus Vaccine

  December 07, 2020   News ID 1026
UK Receives the First Batch of the Ordered Pfizer-BioNTech Coronavirus Vaccine
Shipments of the coronavirus vaccine developed by American drugmaker Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech were delivered in the UK on Sunday in super-cold containers, two days before it goes public in an immunisation programme that is being closely watched around the world.
London, SAEDNEWS, Dec. 7: Around 800,000 doses of the vaccine were expected to be in place for the start of the immunisation program on Tuesday, a day that Health Secretary Matt Hancock has reportedly dubbed as “V-Day,” a nod to triumphs in World War II.

"To know that they are here, and we are amongst the first in the country to actually receive the vaccine and therefore the first in the world, is just amazing," said Louise Coughlan, joint chief pharmacist at Croydon Health Services NHS Trust, just south of London.


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