United Kingdom is the first country to authorize the Pfizer / BioNtech coronavirus vaccine

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UK is the first country to approve Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine

The UK has authorized Pfizer / BioNTech’s covid-19 vaccine for emergency use and will be available from “next week,” a British government spokesman announced on Wednesday.

“The government accepted today the recommendation of the Independent Medicines and Health Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to approve the use of the Pfizer / BioNTech covid-19 vaccine,” said a ministry spokesperson, specifying that “the vaccine It will be available across the UK from next week. ”

Pfizer said it will start shipping limited supplies of the vaccine to Britain immediately, and has been preparing for larger-scale distribution in case the US Food and Drug Administration makes the same decision as British authorities, somewhat. which is expected to happen early next week.

Vaccine doses are meager and early shipments will be rationed until more are manufactured in the first months of 2021.

The United Kingdom’s authorization of the coronavirus vaccine marks a “historic moment” in the battle against the pandemic, said Albert Bourla, chief executive of the US group Pfizer, on Wednesday.

Hospitals in England had already been informed that they must prepare for a covid-19 vaccination in just 10 days, specifically hospitals in the NHS, the prestigious UK public health system, according to a report by the British newspaper The Guardian posted the weekend.

NHS officials told that newspaper that hospitals in England could start receiving their first deliveries of the vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech from next Monday, December 7, once it has been approved by regulatory authorities.

Source: AP