Vaccine roll-out, British grandma is first in world to get Pfizer vaccine
Vaccine roll-out, British grandma is first in world to get Pfizer vaccine
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Ninety-year-old Margaret Keenan, from Coventry, was the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech jab outside a clinical trial. The grandmother said she felt "so privileged" and could "finally look forward to spending time with my family and friends in the New Year". About 70 hospital hubs across the UK are being set up to inoculate people aged over 80, along with some health workers and care staff. There are 800,000 doses of vaccine currently available, with up to four million due by the end of the month. More hospitals and GP practices will become involved as time goes on

An early riser, Keenan received the jab at her local hospital in Coventry, central England, on Tuesday morning at 0631 GMT.

Know more: The UK has become the first country in the world to approve Pfizer and BioNTech's coronavirus candidate 'BNT162b2'. The decision was taken after the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) found the jab safe for widespread rollout, Pfizer said earlier.

The country has already ordered 40 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine to vaccinate its 20 million population. As the covid-19 cases continue to rise in the UK, the country had planned to move quickly into the approval process.

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