UK has started preparation to rollout Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine this week. The shot will be first available at hospitals before distributing stocks to doctors clinics, the government said.
Louise Coghlan, joint chief pharmacist at the Croydon health service said: “This is just so exciting. It’s a momentous occasion. To know that they are here and we are much the first in the country to actually receive the vaccine, and therefore the first in the world, is just amazing. I’m so proud.”
The first doses are set to be administered on Tuesday, with the NHS giving top priority to vaccinating the over-80s, frontline healthcare workers and care home staff and residents.
In total, Britain has ordered 40 million doses. As each person requires two doses, that is enough to vaccinate 20 million people in the country of 67 million.
About 800,000 doses are expected to be available within the first week.
