What will Covid vaccination be like in the UK

2 December 20203 years ago babelfish

The British Minister of Health, Hancock, announced that Pfizer-Biontech's vaccine, which guarantees 95% immunization from Covid-19, will be available in the UK from next week. The point of Daniele Meloni

2020 was a bad year but already 2021 will get better. With these words, the British Minister of Health, Matt Hancock, announced from the screens of the BBC Breakfast broadcast that the Pfizer-Biontech vaccine, which guarantees 95% immunization from Covid-19, will be available in the United Kingdom from next week.

The United Kingdom was one of the countries most affected by the pandemic: it was the first in Europe to reach 50 thousand deaths and saw Prime Minister Boris Johnson hospitalized in London in April at St. Thomas hospital for contracting the virus. Furthermore, the restrictions on personal freedoms put in place by the Government – today is the last day of lockdown before the return to the 3 levels of alert – have created more than a controversy in the conservative majority, in relations between London and other English regions and on the same staff as Johnson.

Immunization will begin within a few days: priority is given to older people, nursing home staff, nurses, doctors and staff from the National Health Service. The immunization of over 50s and young people will take place in the first months of 2021. It will be the NHS itself that will call the people most in need of the vaccine for their turn. The UK has already initially ordered 40 million doses, enough to vaccinate 20 million people. 800 thousand doses will arrive in the next few days. About 50 hospitals are on standby, as are convention centers that are in the process of being transformed into Vaccination Centers.

It is the fastest developing vaccine ever: it took 10 months to get results which usually take 10 years. There were doubts about it but Hancock said that "if it wasn't safe, the vaccine would not have been approved".

For NHS CEO Sir Simon Stevens, it will be the largest mass vaccination program in the country's history. According to Professor Danny Altman of Imperial College London, the news of the vaccine's approval is a "pivotal moment in the fight against Covid".

In addition to Pfizer's vaccine, the UK has pre-ordered 7 million doses of the vaccine developed by Moderna and 100 million doses of that developed by the collaboration between the Jenner Institute of Oxford University and AstraZeneca.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/sanita/come-sara-il-piano-di-vaccinazioni-anti-covid-nel-regno-unito/ on Wed, 02 Dec 2020 08:59:27 +0000.