Senior nurse administers an injection of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at the Royal Free hospital in London on December 8, 2020. (File photo: AFP)
Britain has now given 15 million people their first dose of vaccine against COVID-19, the minister in charge of the vaccination program said on Twitter on Sunday.
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“15,000,000! Amazing team,” Nadim Zahawi tweeted, citing data compiled by the I news website using totals from each of the United Kingdom’s four constituent countries. The official data will be published at around 1600 GMT.
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