U.K. starts virus campaign with shot watched globally
Residents over 80 are first to receive Pfizer vaccination
By DANICA KIRKA, Associated Press
Published: December 8, 2020, 3:30pm
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Care home worker Pillay Jagambrun, 61, receives the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in The Vaccination Hub at Croydon University Hospital, south London, on the first day of the largest immunization program in the UK's history, Tuesday Dec. 8, 2020. (Dan Charity/Pool via AP) (Jack Hill/Pool)Photo Gallery
LONDON — A nurse rolled up 90-year-old Margaret Keenan’s sleeve and administered a shot watched round the world — the first jab in the U.K.’s COVID-19 vaccination program kicking off an unprecedented global effort to try to end a pandemic that has killed 1.5 million people.
Keenan, a retired shop clerk from Northern Ireland who celebrates her birthday next week, was at the front of the line at University Hospital Coventry to receive the vaccine that was approved by British regulators last week.
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