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Britain Makes Final Preparations for First Round of COVID-19 Vaccinations

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   Britain is on the eve of launching a COVID-19 vaccination campaign.

   Staffers with the nation's National Health Service, nursing home
   residents and their caregivers on Tuesday will begin to receive the
   first of two doses of a vaccine jointly developed by U.S.-based
   pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and Germany's BioNTech.

   The initiative will start nearly a week after the government's medical
   regulatory agency granted emergency approval for the vaccine, making
   Britain the first western nation ready to begin mass inoculations. The
   approval came weeks after Pfizer announced the vaccine had been shown
   to be over 90% effective after its final, widespread clinical trial.

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