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‘V-Day’: UK rolls out vaccine, 90-year-old woman first in line

UK becomes first in world to make Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine available for widespread use as mass inoculation begins.

Margaret Keenan, a 90-year-old grandmother from Britain, has become the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine outside of a trial following its rapid clinical approval.

An early riser, Keenan received the jab at her local hospital in Coventry, central England, on Tuesday morning at 06:31 GMT, a week before she turns 91.

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