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First doses of Pfizer vaccine due to arrive in UK within hours
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukdirect to your inboxThe first doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine are due to arrive in the UK in the next few hours.Deputy chief medical officer Professor Jonathan Van-Tam said the jab will be arriving in the country in “hours, not days”.The UK became the first country in the world to give the go-ahead to the vaccine, with the first jabs set to be administered in hospitals early next week.The country has ordered 40 million doses, which is enough to vaccinate 20 million people with two doses, given 21 days apart.The first shipments contain 800,000 doses with more to follow in the coming weeks.BioNTech chief commercial officer Sean Marett said the UK is likely to receive at least 5 million doses by the end of the year.Boris Johnson has.
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