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Margaret Keenan, 90, is applauded by staff as she returns to her ward after becoming the first person in Britain to receive the Pfizer / BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at University Hospital, at the start of the largest immunization program in British history, in Coventry, Great Britain December 8, 2020. Great Britain is the first country in the world to start vaccinating people with the Pfizer / BioNTech jab. Jacob King / Pool via REUTERS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
A World Health Organization (WHO) official said Tuesday that only public health measures, not vaccines, can prevent a further surge in COVID-19 cases as the first vaccines are administered in Britain.
“Vaccines are a great tool, they will be very useful, but the effect of the vaccine to provide some kind of immune barrier is still a long way off,” WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris said in response to a question at a Geneva conference. on whether the vaccines would arrive in time to prevent a third wave of cases in Europe.
“The things that must be done to avoid a surge, a rebound, a surge or whatever you want to call it are public health measures,” he added.
A 90-year-old grandmother became the world’s first person to receive a fully tested COVID-19 injection on Tuesday, as Britain began mass vaccinating its people in a global push that poses one of the biggest logistical challenges in the history of peacetime.
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