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Today, Monday, January 4, the UK will start administering the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine: it will be the first country in the world to do so. 530,000 ready-to-use doses have already been delivered, while a total of 100 million have been ordered, enough alone to vaccinate almost the entire population (the UK has 66 million people and two doses per person are needed).
The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was approved by the UK on December 30. The first to receive it will be residents and employees of nursing homes, people over 80 and employees of the British National Health Service.
On December 8, the UK had already started administering the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, of which it has reserved 40 million doses. The goal was to vaccinate 4 million people in the first month, but currently only 1 million people have received the vaccine.
More than 50,000 new coronavirus infections were recorded in the UK on Sunday January 3 for the sixth day in a row and Prime Minister Boris Johnson said BBC that in some areas restrictions could be tightened to contain infections, including the possibility of postponing the reopening of schools.
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