The United Kingdom became on Monday January 4 the first country to administer to its population the vaccine developed by the British laboratory AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, thus accelerating its vaccination campaign launched in early December, in the face of the worsening of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
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Brian Pinker, an 82-year-old Briton, received the first injection of this "
national
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vaccine at Churchill Hospital at Oxford University
, 520,000 doses of which are ready to be distributed, the British public health service said ( NHS) in a statement.