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Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip receive COVID-19 vaccines as UK records 80,000 coronavirus deaths
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip have received their COVID-19 vaccinations, royal officials said.
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Buckingham Palace officials said in a statement that the 94-year-old monarch and the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, received their jabs on Saturday local time, joining some 1.5 million people in Britain who have been given a first dose of a vaccine.
It comes as the UK reaches a grim new milestone of 80,000 deaths from COVID-19, the world’s fifth-highest official death toll…
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