UK 1st to roll out Oxford vaccine with dialysis patient

Tribune News Service

Updated At : 11:59 AM Jan 05, 2021 IST

London: The UK on Monday began rolling out the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19, becoming the first nation to inoculate people with the cheaper and easy-to-handle jab outside of trials. The Oxford vaccine, which also has a tie up with the Serum Institute of India, was first administered to Brian Pinker, an 82-year-old Oxford-born dialysis patient. pti

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