COVID-19: FDA approves Pfizer vaccine for emergency use in US

The US Food and Drug Administration has authorised the Pfizer BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for emergency use. President Trump said it would be made available for free to all Americans and that the first inoculations would take place within 24 hours

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(Picture: A hospital in Indiana rehearses its distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine, Credit: Reuters)