Brian Pinker, a 82-year-old British dialysis patient, has converted this moon into the first person in the world to receive the vaccine against COVID-19 developed by Oxford and AstraZeneca through a clinical trial.
Pinker, who needed dialysis for a renal infection, was inoculated with the pharmacy at 7.30 hours (local time) at Churchill Hospital, located in the British city of Oxford, by nurse Sam Foster.
The man said he was “pleased” to have received the vacancy and said he was “really sorry” because he had been dropped off at Oxford. “The nurses, doctors and staff (sanitary) have been brilliant and now can advance to celebrate the 48th anniversary of shelters with my wife Shirley at the end of the year,” the BBC information said.
The United Kingdom is on the list to administer more than a million doses of the Oxford and AstraZeneca vaccine during the day. Specifically, the British sanitary authorities have 530,000 doses of vaccine available to administer these in their medical facilities in Oxford, London, Sussex, Lancashire and Warwickshire.
The Minister of Health of the United Kingdom, Matt Hancock, described the hit as an “essential moment” in the air against the disease in the country, as long as he stated that it was “difficult weeks”, although “it is health “.
Reino Unido finds itself in the middle of a sustainable increase in the new contagios of COVID-19, with more than 50,000 registered this domingo. As of now, the sanitary authorities in the country have confirmed more than 2.6 million contagious people, including more than 75,000 deadly victims.
In this regard, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, pointed out that Gobierno “without hesitation” would return restrictive measures to curb the expansion of the world.
The ‘premier’ was expressed in the same line as the headline of the sanitary card and predicted that the weekly proxies would be “duras, duras”, with more than three quarters of the population of the country below the highest level of alert the pandemic, the quarter, which implies the most severe restrictions.
“We were hoping to see the impact of the medium level virus on the virus, which, at the moment, is not clear,” he said. “But if the numbers are mired, there is no doubt that we tend to take more time and are announcing their due date,” he said.
THE VARIANTE DEL VIRUS
For another day, during the year, Hancock referred to the coronavirus variant in the United Kingdom and said that it was more “pink” and transmitted “with much more facility”. “It’s much more contagious. It only needs to maintain contact with a viral load to contact the nurse”, he explained.
In parallel, it has reported on a variant of the virus discovered in South Africa and has pointed out that it is “incredibly preoccupied” with the scheme, according to the ‘The Guardian’ diary.