UK begins dispensing COVID-19 vaccine from today

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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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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