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The COVID-19 vaccination programme in the United Kingdom is an ongoing mass immunisation campaign for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. Vaccinations began on 8 December 2020 after Margaret Keenan became the first person in the world (outside trials) to receive her first dose of two of the ...
The UK-wide COVID Symptom Study based on surveys of four million participants, endorsed by authorities in Scotland and Wales, run by health science company ZOE, and analysed by King's College London researchers, [2] publishes daily estimates of the number of new and total current COVID-19 infections (excluding care homes) in UK regions, without ...
On 2 December 2020, the MHRA became the first global medicines regulator to approve an RNA vaccine when it gave conditional and temporary authorization to supply for use of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine codenamed BNT162b2 [22] [23] [24] (later branded as Comirnaty).
The study, which has yet to be peer-reviewed, included more than 7.5 million people aged 70 and over in England.
Leaflets and other programme materials, early 2021. The Vaccine Taskforce in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was set up in April 2020 by the Second Johnson ministry, in collaboration with Chief Scientific Advisor Patrick Vallance and Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty, in order to facilitate the path towards the introduction of a COVID-19 vaccine in the UK ...
1 February – NHS England confirms that every older care home resident in England has been offered a COVID vaccine. [78]Health Secretary Matt Hancock confirms that around 80,000 residents over the age of 16 in areas of Surrey, London, Kent, Hertfordshire, Southport and Walsall are to be asked to take tests for the South African COVID-19 variant after 11 cases were identified that could not be ...
One dose of Pfizer or Moderna vaccines appears at least 80% effective against symptomatic COVID-19. For AstraZeneca, one-shot efficacy is 70%. One dose of Pfizer or Moderna vaccines appears at ...
Trials of the single-dose Janssen COVID-19 vaccine, of which the UK has ordered 60 million doses, have indicated it to be 66% effective, the Belgian pharmaceutical firm Janssen confirms. [152] Office for National Statistics figures have suggested the level of COVID cases remained stable in the week up to 23 January, and may have even fallen ...