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Britain hails turning point in fight against the coronavirus, as it begins the biggest vaccination programme in the country's history with a new Covid-19 jab

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#BREAKING Briton, 90, first person to receive Pfizer's approved Covid vaccine: BBC

AFP graphic on what it would take to vaccinate the world to end the Covid-19 pandemic

#UPDATE 90-year-old Margaret Keenan becomes the first person in the UK to receive a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine

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AFP graphic on Covid-19 vaccines in development being tracked by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Britain on December 8 begins its new Covid-19 vaccination programme

VIDEO: 90 year-old UK grandmother first to receive Pfizer Covid vaccine.

Margaret Keenan has become the first person in the world to receive the officially-licenced Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, at a hospital in Coventry, England

AFP graphic showing the leading contenders in the race to develop Covid-19 vaccines -- including #PfizerBioNTech, #OxfordAstraZeneca and #Moderna -- and the different routes they take, from virus vaccines to protein-based vaccines

#UPDATE A 90-year-old British grandmother became the first person in a Western country to receive an approved #coronavirus #vaccine early Tuesday, as Britain rolled out Pfizer-BioNTech's jab in the biggest inoculation drive in its history u.afp.com/Ukk7

VIDEO: Health workers in Cardiff were on Tuesday among the first people in the world to receive the #PfizerBioNTech Covid-19 #vaccine

VIDEO: As the UK becomes the first country to roll-out the #PfizerBioNTech Covid-19 #vaccine, 90-year-old grandmother Margaret Keenan on Tuesday became the first person to receive a dose, having the jab at a hospital in Coventry, central England

#UPDATE Britain on Tuesday became the first Western country to start a mass #coronavirus #vaccine campaign with a 90-year-old receiving the initial jab, as the number of cases in Europe hit 20 million u.afp.com/Uk3w #PfizerBioNTech