{"id":33237,"date":"2020-12-08T17:15:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T17:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=33237"},"modified":"2020-12-08T17:15:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T17:15:57","slug":"covid-19-vaccination-begins-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-vaccination-begins-in-uk","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 vaccination begins in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Prime Minister, Boris Johnson on Tuesday confirmed that the United Kingdom has commenced vaccination against COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Britain is the first country in the world to grant emergency use of the vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>The vaccine was produced by United States pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and German firm BioNTech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday the first vaccinations in the UK against COVID-19 begin\u201d, Johnson tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>The leader praised the National Health Service (NHS) and all the scientists who worked on the research.<\/p>\n<p>He also thanked everyone that have followed the rules to protect others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will beat this together\u201d, the Prime Minister assured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Prime Minister, Boris Johnson on Tuesday confirmed that the United Kingdom has commenced vaccination against COVID-19. Britain is the first country in the world to grant emergency use of the vaccine. The vaccine was produced by United States pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and German firm BioNTech. \u201cToday the first vaccinations in the UK [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":33236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1438,28,26],"tags":[1570,1585,254,374],"class_list":["post-33237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-coronavirus-in-nigeria","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-covid-19-2","tag-nigeria","tag-uk"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>COVID-19 vaccination begins in UK - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-vaccination-begins-in-uk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"COVID-19 vaccination begins in UK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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