Huge news out of Britain today as Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that the United Kingdom will be the first country in the world to roll out COVID-19 vaccine. Britain’s Prime Minister says the MHRA have authorized a COVID-19 vaccine for use to treat emergency cases and the elderly.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) that approved the usage of the vaccine is an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care in the United Kingdom which is responsible for ensuring that medicines and medical devices work and are acceptably safe.
The vaccine has been produced by the American pharmaceutical company, Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech.
“It’s fantastic said British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. “The vaccine will be made available across the U.K. within the coming week. It will allow us to reclaim our lives and get the economy moving again.”
“We are no longer resting on the mere hope that things we will be returned to normal,” said Boris Johnson.
“The searchlights of science has picked out our invisible enemy, with the power to stop our enemy from making people ill,” said Johnson.
The U.K. will receive over 800,000 doses within the coming days. The British government will release the protocol in the coming days on how the vaccine will be released to the public.
Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, says it will take some months before all of the vulnerable are vaccinated.
Canada has a rolling approval system in place and when exactly the first doses roll out will be determined by Health Canada. Sources suggest it will not be until the new year.
by Ottawa Times staff
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