United Kingdom announces vaccination against Covid-19 begins this Tuesday (8) | Vaccine

Those over 80, front-line healthcare workers, and nursing home employees and residents will have priority in this first phase of vaccination. Mass immunization of Britons over 50, as well as adults with a pre-existing disease, is expected to occur in 2021.

British media say Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip will not skip the line, but they are both in the priority group. The queen is 94 years old and the prince 100 years old.

The UK has purchased a total of 40 million doses of the vaccine from Pfizer / BioNTech. Since each person needs two doses, 20 million people will be immunized.

The UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said, in a note in the statement released Wednesday, that the approval of the vaccine was based on a “continuous review” of available data that began in October.

The Pfizer vaccine, developed in partnership with the BioNTech company, is one of four that are being tested in Brazil. The country has not yet reached an agreement to acquire the vaccine, but in mid-November, the government received executives from Pfizer to, according to the Ministry of Health, “to know the results of the ongoing tests and the conditions of purchase, logistics and warehousing offered “. by the laboratory. ”

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