British Prime Minister Boris Johnson thanked health workers and scientists for making possible the start of vaccination against covid-19, after a 90-year-old woman was on Tuesday the first person in the United Kingdom and the world to receive the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine.
“Today the first vaccinations in the UK against covid-19 begin. Thanks to our NHS (Public Health), to all the scientists who worked so hard to develop this vaccine, to all the volunteers,” Johnson wrote in his account of Twitter
The head of the Government, who was hospitalized in April after catching the virus, also thanked those who have complied with the restrictive measures to control the disease and concluded his tweet by stating: “we are going to fight this together.”
For his part, the leader of the Labor opposition, Keir Starmer, wrote on Twitter that this Tuesday is a “momentous day” and stressed that “there is light at the end of the tunnel.”
“It is crucial that we all continue to take care of ourselves by following the recommendations of public health,” added the Labor leader.
Margaret Keenan, 90, was filmed and photographed while the vaccine was administered – around 6.30 GMT – at Coventry University Hospital, in central England.
Keenan, who is called “Maggie” by friends and family, received the first of two doses of the vaccine from Filipino nurse May Parsons amid widespread media attention as the government began what the United Kingdom has called the V-Day “(Day of the V or vaccination).
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