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UK begins dispensing COVID-19 vaccine from today

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The U-K will begin dispensing the Pfizer and BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from today. In the U-S, hospitals in New York have been ordered to increase their capacity by 25 per cent and Donald Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, is in hospital recovering from coronavirus.


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The U-K will begin dispensing the Pfizer and BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from today. In the U-S, hospitals in New York have been ordered to increase their capacity by 25 per cent and Donald Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, is in hospital recovering from coronavirus.


Britain has had over 61,000 deaths from COVID-19, but Prime Minister Boris Johnson hopes to turn the tide against the disease by rolling out the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.

In the U-S, nearly 15 million [[14,883,966]] people have been infected by the COVID-19 virus. The virus that has killed more than 280,000 Americans.

India, the world's second-most populous country has 9.68 million infections, while more than 140,000 people have died of COVID-19.

For health and support measures currently in place in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in your language, visit sbs.com.au/coronavirus.

 

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