LONDON- Britain has become the first nation to begin a mass inoculation campaign using a fully tested vaccine, kicking off a global effort to fight Covid-19. Doctors, nurses, certain people aged 80 or over and nursing home workers will be among the first to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

At 6:31 a.m. Tuesday, Margaret Keenan, 90, a former jewelry shop assistant, rolled up the sleeve of her “Merry Christmas” T-shirt to receive the first shot, and her image quickly became an emblem of the remarkable race to produce a vaccine and the global effort to end a pandemic that has killed 1.5 million people worldwide.

Following the first round of vaccinations, England’s National Health Service warned that those with significant allergic reaction history to a vaccine, medicine, or food, should not be given the Pfizer for Germany’s BioNTech vaccines. The warning came after two workers who received the vaccine Tuesday had reactions. Both had history’s of allergic reactions, and recovered following treatment. There have been no other reports of significant reactions.

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