A health care worker injects a patient with a syringe of the phase 3 Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine trial in Turkey in October 2020.The UK on Wednesday approved the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, making it the first Western country to authorize a coronavirus shot.
People in care homes and their carers are the highest priority for the vaccine, the government said, followed by anyone over 80 and frontline health workers.The COVID-19 vaccine developed by the US pharma giant Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech was approved by the UK regulator on Wednesday - the first western country to give the green light to a coronavirus shot.that the vaccine would be available within a week, and that care home residents and their carers would be first in line.
Hancock said that "many millions" of Pfizer's vaccine doses could be available by the end of the year, but declined to state a precise figure. The two-shot vaccine will first be made available to care home residents and their carers, people over the age of 80, and frontline healthcare workers, Hancock said.