Pfizer Vaccine Approved

As of today, the UK government has approved use of the COVID vaccine from Pfizer. The first phase of the programme will cater to the following in nine stages:

  1. Residents in a care home for older adults and their carers
  2. All those 80 years of age and over. Frontline health and social care workers.
  3. All those 75 years of age and over.
  4. All those 70 years of age and over. Clinically extremely vulnerable individuals.
  5. All those 65 years of age and over.
  6. All individuals aged 16 years to 64 years with underlying health conditions which put them at higher risk of serious disease and mortality
  7. All those 60 years of age and over
  8. All those 55 years of age and over
  9. All those 50 years of age and over

Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed, the chairman of the Commission on Human Medicines, has said that the vaccine is affective for 95% for all groups, no matter gender, age, ethnicity etc.

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