The vaccination campaign against the Corona virus was launched in Britain today, after it received its first batch of the American Pfizer vaccine.
According to Arabiya Net, live footage coming from the British capital, London, showed a 90-year-old British woman receiving the vaccine.
and Margaret Kennan, 90, in a hospital in Coventry in central England, became the first person in the world to receive the vaccine, nearly a week after the British authorities gave their green light for distribution in the country Hardest hit in Europe, with nearly 61,500 deaths.
Kenan said: I feel proud to be the first person to be vaccinated against Corona, it is the best early birthday gift I can wish for, because it means I can finally look forward To spend time with my family and friends in the new year after having spent most of the year alone.
and with the help of tens of thousands of volunteers and the army, health care workers began to launch a vaccination campaign against the Corona virus, with the aim of vaccinating more than 20 million citizens in just a few months. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson expressed his happiness at this achievement and said: With the start of vaccination against Corona, we will defeat this virus.
British Health Minister Matt Hancock said that 90 people received the vaccine in the first 15 minutes of the vaccination campaign, adding: We have a great effort before the vaccination program against the vaccine .. 70 hospitals will start vaccination operations today.
He added that by spring, the vaccination process for people most vulnerable to corona will end, indicating that the wide vaccination campaign will start from the beginning of the new year .. and will include medical centers in the United Kingdom .
The vaccine was sent to hospitals across the United Kingdom in extremely cold containers, where it is expected that about 800 thousand doses of the vaccine will be released today, the day that the Minister called British Health D-Day title, comparing it to the victories of World War II.
and last week the United Kingdom became the first country to authorize the use of the Pfizer-Bionic vaccine in emergency situations.
In details, 50 hospitals in England, along with other hospitals in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have trained their staff and prepared to start the largest vaccination process against the Corona virus, which reached 800 A dose of Pfizer-Bionic vaccine licensed by the Drug Regulatory Authority to hospitals.
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