Batches of Pfizer vaccines are being send out to United Kingdom after the country becomes first to grant Pfizer-BioNTech emergency use authorisation.
The mRna based coronavaccine will be used to vaccinate the countries healthcare workers, elderly care home residents and their care givers and elderly population 80 plus population.
Meanwhile Moscow ans China have fast tracked vaccine trials and have began roll out of the vaccines .
Moscow hlhas already begun distributing a Russia made covid vaccine, Sputnik . To be made available to teachers, social/medical workers and doctors through 70 clinics soon. Russian with more than 2.4 million cases has the forth highest total number of corona cases world wide. Sputnik V vaccine is administered in two injections, with the second dose to be given in 21 days.
China also prepared large scale roll out of covid vaccine. Provincial governments are already placing order last for the domestically made vaccines.