Coronavirus vaccinations have started across the UK, bringing new hope to a country that has spent most of 2020 in fear of the disease.
Margaret Keenan, 90, was the first to receive the jab in the UK, having been given the life-saving vaccine at 6.31am in Coventry.
Since then, the vaccine has been given to several people in 50 hospitals across the country. The UK government was unable to say how many people were vaccinated yesterday, but said information on numbers would be regularly released in due course.
Like all vaccines, the Covid-19 vaccine can cause side effects, although most are mild and go away within a few days. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (the JCVI), an independent committee of experts that advises UK