LONDON: Tens of thousands of people in Britain have received the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine after a mass vaccination programme began earlier this week, health minister Matt Hancock said on Thursday.
“As of today, we are vaccinating in 73 hospitals across the UK, tens of thousands of people have had the jab,” he said at a news conference.
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Separately to have happend today, US experts met to assess whether to grant emergency approval for Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine and allow America to become the next country to move ahead with mass immunization.
