The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) announced on Thursday that the UK will begin inoculating vaccines aimed at combating both the original variant of the coronavirus and the micron from next 5 September.
During the first week, the immunization program will focus on nursing homes and people with reduced mobility who are unable to leave their homes, and from 12 September the vaccine will be available to all people over the age of 50 and particularly vulnerable children. age.
The British Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Authority (MHRA) announced this week that the UK has become the first country to approve Moderna’s bivalent Covid-19 vaccine.
In total, 26 million people will be able to receive a dose of the new vaccine as long as at least three months have passed since they received the previous dose.
“The NHS was the first healthcare system in the world to use a Covid-19 vaccine outside of clinical trials and we will now be the first to use the new vaccine,” said NHS CEO Amanda Pritchard.
source: Noticias
[author_name]
