First person in UK receives new Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine

Britain has taken another step in the fight against COVID-19, administering the world’s first shots of the vaccine created by Oxford University and pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca.

Dialysis patient Brian Pinker was the first to get the new vaccine shot by the chief nurse at Oxford University Hospital.

Mr Pinker said he was pleased and could “now really look forward to celebrating my 48th wedding anniversary with my wife Shirley later this year.”

Britain’s National Health Service has been delivering shots to health care workers and nursing home residents and staff since December 8 of a vaccine made by Pfizer and the German firm BioNTech.

The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine boosts that effort, but is also cheaper and easier to use since it does…