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Dubbed as V-Day, UK begins to roll out Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, as 90-year-old grandmother becomes first person in the world to receive it.

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Asian stocks dip as fears of surge in COVID-19 cases overshadow hopes of additional US stimulus aje.io/5bma8

💉 WHO says immune barrier from vaccines ‘still far off’
🇬🇧 UK PM Johnson thanks health workers after vaccine launch
🇮🇳 India reports lowest daily rise in infection cases since July

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The first UK citizen to be given the COVID-19 vaccine thought "it was a joke" when told she would be the first recipient aje.io/hzzyl

“[It] risks a double tragedy: racial inequality in deaths from COVID-19 and potential racial inequality in vaccine uptake.” - Professor Sophie Harman, Queen Mary University

Why some UK Black and ethnic minorities fear the vaccine aje.io/w69r8

💉 EU delegation pledges to provide COVID-19 tests and vaccines to Gaza
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish health authorities begin mass vaccinations
🇲🇽 Mexico aims to begin vaccinating 125,000 health workers by year-end

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COVID-19 vaccine by Oxford-AstraZeneca has 70% efficacy, according to final trial data aje.io/cm9pq

Are we seeing light at the end of the tunnel for the coronavirus pandemic? aje.io/8zwlx

Mnuchin offers $916bn COVID-19 relief plan to break a deadlocked US Congress aje.io/a3u66

Biden to push masks, vaccines, school reopenings in COVID-19 plan for his first 100 days in office aje.io/v9p9d