British Prime Minister Boris Johnson receives first dose of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, received this Friday on first dose of the coronavirus vaccine from AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford.

Thursday, during a press conference, the head of government again championed vaccine safety, and recalled that the country’s regulatory authority and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) have also spoken in this regard.

“AstraZeneca vaccine is safe and Pfizer vaccine is safe”he noted, pointing out that “What is not certain is to contract the virus”. “Vaccines are the way to the safety of the population”, he repeated, as reported by the British newspaper The Guardian.

Over the past 24 hours, the UK Department of Health has recorded 6,303 new cases of COVID-19 and 95 deaths for the consequences of the disease.

With these figures, the balance sheet of the European country since the start of the pandemic has risen to 125,926 deaths and 4,280,882 infections.

With reference to the hospital situation, British health authorities reported 426 new admissions during the day. Until, 7,218 people remain hospitalized in UK with COVID-19, of which 968 require mechanical breathing.

For its part, over 25.7 million people received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, while over 1.8 million were also inoculated with the second.

The country first vaccinated elderly people in nursing homes and health workers and since then proceeds by regressive age groups aiming to have all adults a dose by the end of July.

Referring to the vaccination campaign, the British Minister for Health, Matt hancock, assured that the delays in the supply of vaccines planned for April they will not affect the second doses to be administered and will not affect the deconfinement “roadmap” either..

“We are on the road to the dates in the ‘road map’ and there is no impact,” he guaranteed in an intervention in the House of Commons, where he also reported authorities have suspended a batch of 1.7 million doses for analysis, as reported by the BBC.

(With information from Europa Press and AFP)

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