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The British National Health Service (NHS) is ready to start offering the new vaccine against coronavirus “As soon as possible and with maximum security,” said the country’s Health Minister Matt Hancock.
As he said, the clinics Vaccination will be open seven days a week and vaccination centers have been set up in places such as sports facilities.
But he urged citizens to be patient, saying “we don’t know” how many people should get vaccinated before life starts again. regularity.
Yesterday, Monday, it was known that the coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer Y BioΝTech it is “90% effective”, as announced by the two laboratories after the first analysis in the middle of Phase 3, since the last evaluation will be carried out before the license application.
This vaccine is one of the 11 vaccines currently available in final stage of clinical trials.
The companies now plan to request urgent approval to use the vaccine in late November and a limited number of people will be able to get vaccinated by the end of the year.
Already the United Kingdom has ordered 40 million doses, capable of vaccinating up to 20 million people, as each will need two doses for the vaccine to work effectively.
But Boris johnson he has warned citizens not to “regard this development as a solution” as it is “still very, very early.”
Speaking on the BBC’s Breakfast program, Hancock said: “Even when vaccination begins, we must continue to take care of ourselves, our community, follow the rules and take care of ourselves. extension of transmission “.
“The NHS is ready, we are ready. Today I allocated another 168 million euros, the doctors “They are ready, we are cooperating with pharmacists, hospitals will play a very important role,” said the minister.
According to Hancock, those who will be vaccinated first are the elderly inmates of the nursing home, their staff and employees in sector from Health, while children will not be vaccinated.
