
Roll-out of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine due to begin in UK in coming days
Starting Tuesday certain groups such as frontline health staff, people over the age of 80 and care home workers will start getting Covid-19 vaccine.
Britain’s National Health Service will begin what it calls the largest-ever vaccine roll-out in UK history on Tuesday. So what can we expect as the vaccine makes its way into the population? We’ll hear from Professor Anthony Harnden, the deputy chair of the UK’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation. Also: mass testing for coronavirus is underway in Austria to locate and isolate infected people before the Christmas holidays, and would you eat lab grown meat?
(Photo: Nurses at the Royal Free Hospital, London, simulate the administration of the Pfizer vaccine to support staff training ahead of the roll-out. Credit: Yui Mok/PA Wire)
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