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Covid vaccines arrive in UK hospitals. Check out pictures here

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COVID-19 vaccine this week. Footage posted by the National Health Service (NHS) showed boxes containing doses of the vaccine being delivered to Croydon University Hospital in south London and being stored in a special, securely locked fridge.Britain gave emergency use approval for the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech last week.In total, Britain has ordered 40 million doses.

As each person requires two doses, that is enough to vaccinate 20 million people in the country of 67 million. About 800,000 doses are expected to be available within the first week.The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine needs to be kept at -70C (-94F) and only lasts five days in a regular fridge.

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