A UK grandmother has become the first person in the world to be given the Pfizer Covid-19 jab as part of a mass vaccination programme.<\/p>\n
Margaret Keenan, who turns 91 next week, said the injection she received at 06:31 GMT was the “best early birthday present”.<\/p>\n
It was the first of 800,000 doses of the Pfizer\/BioNTech vaccine that will be dispensed in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n
Up to four million more are expected by the end of the month.<\/p>\n
Hubs in the UK are starting the rollout by vaccinating the over-80s and some health and care staff.<\/p>\n
Senior NHS sources told the BBC “thousands of vaccinations” had taken place across the UK on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
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Dubbing the day “V-day”, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said it was “a tribute to scientific endeavour and human ingenuity and to the hard work of so many people.<\/p>\n
“Today marks the start of the fightback against our common enemy, the coronavirus,” he said.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Boris Johnson, on a visit to a London hospital to see some of the first people getting the jab, said getting vaccinated was “good for you and good for the whole country”.<\/p>\n
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