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Vaccine shipment arrives in the UK two days before rollout of COVID-19 vaccination plan watched by the world
First shipments of a coronavirus vaccine have been delivered in the UK in super-cold containers, two days before it goes public in an immunisation program that is being closely watched around the world.
Key points:
- The first vaccine shipments were delivered from Pfizer’s manufacturing plant in Belgium
- Checks by a specialist medical logistics company to ensure there was no damage in transit could take up to a day
- Vaccines will begin to be administered on Tuesday, UK time
Around 800,000 doses of the vaccine developed by American drugmaker Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech were expected to be in place for the start of the immunisation program on Tuesday (UK time).
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