The United Kingdom, one of the countries hardest hit by the coronavirus, started its vaccination campaign on December 8, a key step toward eventually ending the pandemic. Care home workers, NHS staff and people aged 80 and over will begin receiving the jab.
PHOTO PACKAGE: Britain begins mass COVID vaccination effort
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Nurse Katie McIntosh administers an injection of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to Clinical Nurse Manager Fiona Churchill, at the Western General Hospital, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Tuesday Dec. 8, 2020.
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Nurse practitioners fill a needle with the Covid-19 vaccine before injecting Sister Joanna Sloan (left), the first person in Northern Ireland to receive the first of two Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine jabs, at the Royal Victoria Hospital, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Britain, 08 December 2020.
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A phial of vaccine and a fresh syringe are among the equipment seen on trays at the Louisa Jordan Hospital in Glasgow on December 8, 2020 as they start administering the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in the UK's biggest ever vaccination programme.
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A member of medical staff checks phials of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in a refrigerator at University Hospital, on the first day of the largest immunisation programme in the British history, in Coventry, Britain December 8, 2020.