Britain to Be First Country to Use Pfizer COVID Vaccine

Britain will be the first country to roll out the Pfizer – BioNTech coronavirus vaccine – the first Western nation to do so, the government announced Sunday. The first doses will be distributed to health care workers and Britons over the age of 80 starting Tuesday, the National Health Service said. Roughly 800,000 doses are expected to be administered during the first week. Pfizer and BioNTech could receive U.S. approval later this month. China is also gearing up to introduce a huge coronavirus vaccine initiative. The Associated Press reports provincial governments across the country are placing orders for experimental, domestically made coronavirus vaccines, although health officials have yet to say how well they work or how they may reach the country’s 1.4 billion people. The AP says more than a million Chinese health care workers have already received experimental vaccines under emergency use permission, but there have been no indications about possible side effects. Russia launched its coronavirus vaccine initiative Saturday to contain the outbreak there. The most vulnerable will receive the first doses of the vaccine named Sputnik V, including medical workers and teachers. The vaccine was approved in August, despite criticism from Western experts about the… Read full this story

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