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A 90-year-old woman today became the first person in the world to receive the new coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech as part of the immunization campaign launched in the United Kingdom.
Margaret Keenan, who will turn 91 next week, called the immunizer the “best early birthday present.”
He received the vaccine dose at 6:31 am (3:31 am Brasilia), at Coventry University Hospital in central England.
I feel very privileged to be the first person to get vaccinated against covid-19. It’s the best anticipated birthday gift you could hope for Margaret Keenan
“This means that I can finally think about spending time with my family and friends in the New Year, after being alone for much of the year,” she added, quoted by the Press Association news agency. He was wearing a Christmas t-shirt at the time he received the dose.
Fifty hospitals have received in recent days the first 800,000 doses of the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, the only one authorized to date by the UK regulatory agency, which arrived from laboratories in Belgium.
The British government decided to give priority to the elderly, their carers and health professionals in the vaccination campaign started today, a date described by the Minister of Health, Matt Hancock, as “V day”, of vaccine.
Last month, the UK said it expected 10 million doses of the immunizer by 2020, but the government said the pace of distribution would depend on delivery, having ordered a total of 40 million doses, enough to vaccinate 20 million. people because each will have to take two doses.
The United Kingdom, the country most affected in Europe by the pandemic, with more than 61,400 confirmed deaths, was the first Western state to authorize the use of a vaccine against covid-19.
* With AFP
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