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“I hope to celebrate the 48th anniversary of my marriage to my wife”
Expanded to 1000 Vaccination Sites … Nursing Home Residents Completed by the End of This Month
The first record of the new vaccine against coronavirus infection (Corona 19) developed jointly by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca was for an elderly man of an Oxford native.
According to the BBC broadcast on the 4th (local time), Brian Pinker, 82, a retired maintenance manager at Churchill Hospital affiliated with Oxford University Hospital, received the AstraZeneca vaccine at 7:30 am (GMT) .
Pinker, who has undergone kidney dialysis treatment in hospital for many years, said he is “very happy” to become AstraZeneca’s first vaccine.
He said he was born and raised in Oxford, in the south of England. “I am very proud that the vaccine was developed in Oxford.”
“Today the nurses, doctors and staff were very good,” he said. “Now I can look forward to celebrating the 48th anniversary of my wife Shirley’s marriage this year.”
“It is a great honor to be able to get the first Oxford vaccine here, just hundreds of meters from where the vaccine was developed,” said Nurse Sam Foster, who vaccinated Mr. Pinker. I hope that.”
The vaccine is developed by a research team at the University of Oxford, a prestigious UK university, and produced by AstraZeneca, a multinational pharmaceutical company based in the UK and Sweden.
As a result, the UK considers this vaccine to be a de facto “native vaccine”.
The UK government has secured the largest number of vaccine candidates of several vaccine candidates, by pre-ordering 100 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Already 530,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine have been shipped to hospitals across the country and, on this day, six large hospitals in Oxford, London, Sussex, Lancashire and Wickshire began vaccination.
Hundreds of hospitals and regional physician (GP) nursing homes across the country also plan to begin vaccination soon.
Health Minister Matt Hancock said the AstraZeneca vaccination was a “critical moment” in responding to the pandemic. “It will be difficult for the next few weeks, but this is the way out.”
The Health Ministry has instructed GPs and local vaccination service officials to ensure that all residents of nursing homes have their vaccinations completed by the end of this month.
There are currently 730 vaccines across the UK, and it will hit 1,000 this week, the Health Ministry said.
Minister Hancock said the first batch of vaccines to be used for next week’s vaccines will ship early this week.
Unlike the Pfizer-Bioentech vaccine, which must be stored and stored at a cryogenic temperature of -70 degrees Celsius, the government expects the AstraZeneca vaccine to be much easier to inoculate as it can be stored at normal refrigerator temperatures.
The UK launched the world’s first Pfizer-Bioentech vaccine on the 8th of last month and has already received more than 1 million people.
The start of vaccination against AstraZeneca is observed as the UK cannot control the spread of the COVID-19 mutation.
The number of new confirmed Corona 19 cases daily in the UK the day before was 54,000, rising to 50,000 on the sixth day.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that as the virus continues to spread, stronger restrictions may be required the day before.
Kier Starmer, leader of the 1st opposition Labor Party, urged the government to introduce a third blockade altogether.
/ yunhap news
