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This is Brian Pinker, a patient on dialysis who received the vaccine at 7:30 am (London time) on Monday at Churchill Hospital, one of the Oxford University hospitals. This Sunday, the United Kingdom registered 54,990 new cases of coronavirus.
Brian Pinker, an 82-year-old Briton, became the first person to receive the vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and the AstraZeneca laboratory on Monday. At 7:30 a.m. local time, the man, who is due on dialysis, was punctured by Sam Foster, head nurse at Oxford University Churchill Hospital. (Here’s what you need to know to understand the world of vaccines)
This vaccine, according to the public health service (NHS), is the national one and already has 520,000 doses ready to be distributed throughout the territory. “I am very happy to receive this covid vaccine today and very proud that it was invented in Oxford,” the man, who is a retired janitor, was quoted as saying in an NHS news release.
“It is a true privilege to have been able to administer the first Oxford / AstraZeneca vaccine here at Churchill Hospital, just a few hundred meters from where it was developed,” said the center’s chief nurse, Sam Foster. (You can read: Why is it possible to develop and evaluate vaccines faster than ever?)
Stephen Powis, Professor and National Medical Director of NHS England, said in an interview with BBC Breakfast that “Four weeks ago I had the privilege of being in Coventry for the first injection of the Pfizer vaccine and it felt like a great moment in this pandemic and To be honest, today when I saw the first hit on the building behind me from the AstraZeneca vaccine, it felt like an even bigger moment, another turning point in our journey out of this pandemic. “
Powis also assured that the NHS has been preparing for many months for the largest vaccination program in the history of the United Kingdom. “We have already delivered more than a million Pfizer vaccines; we now have AstraZeneca’s, so our goal is to get it into people’s arms as fast as it is supplied to us. If we receive 2 million doses per week, our goal is to get 2 million doses into the arms of those priority groups, “he added to the program.
With more than 75,000 deaths, the UK is one of the countries in Europe most affected by COVID-19. Nearly 55,000 more people tested positive in the last 24 hours, surpassing the 50,000 threshold for the sixth consecutive day, according to the latest official data released.
The United Kingdom, which has already vaccinated one million people with the vaccine developed by Pfizer / BioNTech, which was also the first country in the world to approve, is facing a new wave of infections since the discovery in December of a new strain of the coronavirus much more transmissible than the previous ones. (Also read: This was “Day V”, the first day of vaccination against the coronavirus in the United Kingdom)
