Britain gets ready for roll-out of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine this week

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LONDON: Britain is preparing to become the first country to roll out the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine this week, initially making the shot ...

Initial doses that have arrived from Belgium are being stored in secure locations across the country, where they will be quality checked, the health ministry said.

For that reason, the health ministry said the vaccine would first be administered in 50 hospitals. It said it would take a few hours to defrost each vaccine and prepare it for use.NHS England has written to general practitioners, telling them to get ready to start giving vaccinations through local doctors' services from Dec 14.

 

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