Six hospitals in England will administer the first of around
530,000 doses of the newly approved vaccine that Britain has ready to go.
The coronavirus immunisation programme will be expanded to
hundreds of other British sites in coming days, with the Government hoping it
will deliver tens of millions of doses within months.
The vaccine, which was approved by Britain's regulatory
body, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), for
emergency use on Wednesday, will eventually be given at more than 700
vaccination sites, the National Health Service (NHS) England said.
Current and former NHS staff have applied to become
vaccinators, and tens of thousands have already completed their online
training, the health body added. It will give doctors who work outside of
hospitals an extra 10 pounds (13 dollars) for every care home resident whom
they vaccinate by the end of the month.
The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine was approved for emergency use
on December 2, with grandmother Margaret Keenan being the first person to be
vaccinated on December 8.
A total of 750,000 doses of the vaccine had been
administered to elderly and vulnerable Britons by the final week of 2020.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson insisted on Sunday that tens of
millions of doses of Covid-19 vaccine would be delivered by the end of March.
The first big step towards that goal begins with the roll-out of the
Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine today.
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