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Immunisation of the public in the United Kingdom against COVID-19. Participants. 53,710,109 have received one vaccine dose. 50,483,527 have received two vaccine doses. 40,196,024 have received three vaccine doses, 6,200,537 have received a fourth dose [1] Outcome. 92.9% of UK population 12+ have received one vaccine dose.
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 ...
The NHS Nightingale Hospital London was the first of the NHS Nightingale Hospitals, temporary hospitals set up by NHS England for the COVID-19 pandemic. It was housed in the ExCeL London convention centre in East London. The hospital was rapidly planned and constructed, being formally opened on 3 April and receiving its first patients on 7 ...
On 2 December, the Pfizer‑BioNTech COVID‑19 vaccine (BNT162b2) was approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) making the UK the first country in the world to approve a COVID–19 vaccination. The first consignment of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine arrived in the UK on 3 December.
The COVID-19 vaccine can protect you from becoming ill and lower your risk of serious illness or hospitalization. For example, recent data from the United Kingdom has found that, compared to ...
of people receiving a COVID-19 vaccine for the first time experienced this side effect. Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). GBS is a rare side effect that can cause the immune system to attack healthy ...
COVID-19 pandemicin the United Kingdom,British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. On 23 March 2020, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a nationwide lockdown to curb a widening outbreak of COVID-19, closing many sectors and ordering the public to stay at home. This was incrementally lifted, starting from several weeks later.
Ocular COVID-19 is when COVID-19 affects the eye. This may happen when the virus directly infects tissues of the eye. It may also occur due to the effects of COVID-19 on the body, including ...